The electric meter, the food bank and «we can't afford it», sentence 20
If a child is often hungry, telling a teacher helps, because schools can help quietly.
Who acts: child, teacher, schools · What happens: be, tell, help · 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 (child, teacher, schools), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 hungry | mark |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 child | det |
| 3 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hungry | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 hungry | cop |
| 5 | often | often | ADV | _ | 6 hungry | advmod |
| 6 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 helps | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 telling | punct |
| 8 | telling | tell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 helps | csubj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 teacher | det |
| 10 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 helps | nsubj |
| 11 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 helps | punct |
| 13 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 16 help | mark |
| 14 | schools | school | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 help | nsubj |
| 15 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 help | aux |
| 16 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 helps | advcl |
| 17 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 16 help | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 hungry | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a condition, not said to happen | present | a child | hungry, often property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | gerund | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | help | present | a teacher | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | help | can | schools | quietly property | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: 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:20.
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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