The electric meter, the food bank and «we can't afford it», sentence 16
Children often hear bits of money talk and imagine the worst.
Who acts: Children · What happens: hear, imagine · To what, where: bits, worst
This is a sentence of the lesson «The electric meter, the food bank and «we can't afford it»» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Children), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 hear | nsubj |
| 2 | often | often | ADV | _ | 3 hear | advmod |
| 3 | hear | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | bits | bit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 hear | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 talk | case |
| 6 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bits | nmod |
| 7 | talk | talk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bits | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 imagine | cc |
| 9 | imagine | imagine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 hear | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 worst | det |
| 11 | worst | bad | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 imagine | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hear | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | present | Children | bits money of talk | often property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer bit=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | imagine | present | Children not said here | the worst | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot bad=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:everyday:488-the-electric-meter-the-food-bank-and-we-cant-afford-it.lesson:16.
The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.
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