The electric meter, the food bank and «we can't afford it», sentence 18

In Hull, the money Marley's mum gets from the government comes late, the fridge is nearly empty, and Mum makes «Marley's Magic Soup» out of everything left.

Who acts: mum, money, fridge · What happens: get, come, be, make, leave · To what, where: money, government, Hull, Magic Soup, everything

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 (mum, money, fridge), 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 Hull	case
2	Hull	Hull	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 comes	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Hull	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 money	det
5	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 comes	nsubj
6	Marley	Marley	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 mum	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Marley	case
8	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 gets	nsubj
9	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 money	acl:relcl
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 government	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 government	det
12	government	government	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 gets	obl
13	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 empty	parataxis
14	late	late	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 comes	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 empty	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 fridge	det
17	fridge	fridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 empty	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 empty	cop
19	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	20 empty	advmod
20	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 makes	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 makes	cc
23	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 makes	nsubj
24	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 empty	conj
25	«	«	PUNCT	_	29 Soup	punct
26	Marley	Marley	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 Soup	nmod:poss
27	's	's	PART	_	26 Marley	case
28	Magic	Magic	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 Soup	compound
29	Soup	Soup	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 makes	obj
30	»	»	PUNCT	_	29 Soup	punct
31	out	out	ADP	_	33 everything	case
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 everything	case
33	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	24 makes	obl
34	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 everything	acl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 comes	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	get	present	Marley's mum	the money not said here	the government		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent money=Theme from government=Source
2	come	present	the money		Hull	late property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hull=Location
3	is	present	the fridge			empty, nearly property	tree rules
4	make	present	Mum	Marley's Magic Soup	everything		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soup=Product
5	leave	participle					vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:18.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×3. 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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