The electric meter, the food bank and «we can't afford it», sentence 19
He knows what it means and plays along and eats two bowls, which is kind.
Who acts: money, fridge, two bowls · What happens: know, mean, play along, eat, be · To what, where: two bowls · 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 (money, fridge, two bowls), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 knows | nsubj |
| 2 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 means | obj |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 means | nsubj |
| 5 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 knows | ccomp |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 plays | cc |
| 7 | plays | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 knows | conj |
| 8 | along | along | ADV | _ | 7 plays | advmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 eats | cc |
| 10 | eats | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 knows | conj |
| 11 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 bowls | nummod |
| 12 | bowls | bowl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 eats | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 kind | punct |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 kind | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 kind | cop |
| 16 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 bowls | acl:relcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 knows | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | money | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | mean | present | fridge | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic | |||||
| 3 | play along | present | money not said here | along property | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | eat | present | money not said here | two bowls | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bowl=Patient | ||||
| 5 | is | present | two bowls | kind property | tree rules |
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:19.
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): no change. 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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