The electric meter, the food bank and «we can't afford it», sentence 2

Some homes have a meter you pay for in advance, like a pay-as-you-go phone: when the money on it runs out, the electricity stops.

Who acts: homes, you, money, electricity · What happens: have, pay, go, run out, stop · To what, where: meter

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 (homes, you, money, electricity), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 homes	det
2	homes	home	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 meter	det
5	meter	meter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 have	obj
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 pay	nsubj
7	pay	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 meter	acl:relcl
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 advance	case
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 advance	case
10	advance	advance	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pay	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 phone	punct
12	like	like	ADP	_	21 phone	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 phone	det
14	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 phone	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 go	punct
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 go	mark
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 as	punct
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 go	nsubj
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 you	punct
20	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 pay	conj
21	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 have	parataxis
22	:	:	PUNCT	_	28 runs	punct
23	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	28 runs	advmod
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 money	det
25	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 runs	nsubj
26	on	on	ADP	_	27 it	case
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 money	nmod
28	runs	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 phone	conj
29	out	out	ADP	_	28 runs	compound:prt
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 stops	punct
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 electricity	det
32	electricity	electricity	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 stops	nsubj
33	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 runs	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	some homes	a meter		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meter=Patient
2	pay	present	you	a meter not said here	for advance	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent meter=Asset for advance=Theme
3	pay	infinitive				vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	go	infinitive	you			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	run out	present	the money on phone			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	stop	present	the electricity			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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:2.

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. 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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