The electric meter, the food bank and «we can't afford it», sentence 22
In Swansea, Osian's mum has two jobs, café by day and cleaning offices at night, and leaves notes: «Love you, cariad, back at 10» («cariad» is Welsh for love).
Who acts: mum, cariad · What happens: have, leave, love, be · To what, where: two jobs, Swansea, notes, 10, you · 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 (mum, cariad), 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 Swansea | case |
| 2 | Swansea | Swansea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 has | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Swansea | punct |
| 4 | Osian | Osian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 mum | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 Osian | case |
| 6 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 has | nsubj |
| 7 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 jobs | nummod |
| 9 | jobs | job | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 has | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 café | punct |
| 11 | café | café | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 jobs | appos |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 offices | case |
| 13 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 café | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 cleaning | cc |
| 15 | cleaning | cleaning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 day | conj |
| 16 | offices | office | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 café | obl |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 night | case |
| 18 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 offices | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 leaves | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 leaves | cc |
| 21 | leaves | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 has | conj |
| 22 | notes | note | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 leaves | obj |
| 23 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 25 Love | punct |
| 24 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 25 Love | punct |
| 25 | Love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 leaves | parataxis |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 Love | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 cariad | punct |
| 28 | cariad | cariad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 Love | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 10 | punct |
| 30 | back | back | ADV | _ | 32 10 | advmod |
| 31 | at | at | ADP | _ | 32 10 | case |
| 32 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 21 leaves | obl |
| 33 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 25 Love | punct |
| 34 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 39 Welsh | punct |
| 35 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 36 cariad | punct |
| 36 | cariad | cariad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 Welsh | nsubj |
| 37 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 36 cariad | punct |
| 38 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 Welsh | cop |
| 39 | Welsh | welsh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 cariad | parataxis |
| 40 | for | for | ADP | _ | 41 love | case |
| 41 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 Welsh | obl |
| 42 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 39 Welsh | punct |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 has | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Osian's mum | two jobs | Swansea | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Patient | |||
| 2 | leave | present | Osian's mum not said here | notes | 10 | tree rules | |||
| 3 | love in a quote | present | you | cariad obl | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | is | present | cariad | for love; welsh 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:22.
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, R8-pos-agree ×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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