The electric meter, the food bank and «we can't afford it», sentence 17

In Edinburgh, Zofia hears «the rent» and «maybe moving» through the wall and can't sleep, worrying about a new school; asking her parents straight is less scary than guessing.

Who acts: Zofia, parents, asking · What happens: hear, move, not sleep, worry, ask, be · To what, where: rent, Edinburgh · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Zofia, parents, asking), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 Edinburgh	case
2	Edinburgh	Edinburgh	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 hears	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 hears	punct
4	Zofia	Zofia	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 hears	nsubj
5	hears	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	«	«	PUNCT	_	8 rent	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 rent	det
8	rent	rent	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hears	obj
9	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 rent	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 moving	cc
11	«	«	PUNCT	_	13 moving	punct
12	maybe	maybe	ADV	_	13 moving	advmod
13	moving	move	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 rent	conj
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 moving	punct
15	through	through	ADP	_	17 wall	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 wall	det
17	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hears	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 sleep	cc
19	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 sleep	aux
20	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 sleep	advmod
21	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 hears	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 worrying	punct
23	worrying	worry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 sleep	advcl
24	about	about	ADP	_	27 school	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 school	det
26	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 school	amod
27	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 worrying	obl
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 asking	punct
29	asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	35 scary	csubj
30	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 parents	nmod:poss
31	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 asking	obj
32	straight	straight	ADV	_	29 asking	advmod
33	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 scary	cop
34	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	35 scary	advmod
35	scary	scary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hears	parataxis
36	than	than	SCONJ	_	37 guessing	mark
37	guessing	guess	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	35 scary	advcl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 hears	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hear	present	Zofia	the rent	Edinburgh	through the wall	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer rent=Stimulus
2	move in a quote	gerund	Zofia not said here			maybe property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	not sleep	can	Zofia not said here				vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	worry	gerund	Zofia not said here			about a new school	vn care-88.1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus what S»: agent=Experiencer about school=Stimulus
5	ask speech: ask	gerund	Zofia's parents			straight property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is	present	asking			less, scary property	tree rules
7	guess	gerund	asking not said here				vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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:17.

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, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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