The electric meter, the food bank and «we can't afford it», sentence 23

He makes his own toast and puts himself to bed; children shouldn't be alone at night for long, so if he's scared, he should tell Mum or a teacher, and there may be help like an after-school club.

Who acts: school, children, help · What happens: make, put, not be, be, tell · To what, where: own toast, school, Mum · 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 (school, children, help), 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 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 toast	nmod:poss
4	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 toast	amod
5	toast	toast	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 puts	cc
7	puts	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 makes	conj
8	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	7 puts	obj
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 bed	case
10	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 puts	obl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 alone	punct
12	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 alone	nsubj
13	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 alone	aux
14	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 alone	advmod
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 alone	cop
16	alone	alone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 makes	parataxis
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 night	case
18	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 alone	obl
19	for	for	ADP	_	20 long	case
20	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 alone	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 scared	punct
22	so	so	ADV	_	26 scared	advmod
23	if	if	SCONJ	_	26 scared	mark
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 scared	nsubj
25	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 scared	cop
26	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 tell	advcl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 tell	punct
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 tell	nsubj
29	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 tell	aux
30	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 makes	parataxis
31	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 tell	obj
32	or	or	CCONJ	_	34 teacher	cc
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 teacher	det
34	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 Mum	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 be	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 be	cc
37	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	39 be	expl
38	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 be	aux
39	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 tell	conj
40	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 be	nsubj
41	like	like	ADP	_	46 club	case
42	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 club	det
43	after	after	ADP	_	45 school	case
44	-	-	PUNCT	_	43 after	punct
45	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 club	compound
46	club	club	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 help	nmod
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 makes	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	school	school's own toast					vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toast=Product
2	put	present	school not said here	school				to bed	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent himself=Goal
3	not is	should	children				night	alone property	tree rules
4	is	present	school					scared property	tree rules
5	tell speech: assert	should	school		Mum or a teacher				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mum=Recipient
6	be	may	help like a school club			there			vn exist-47.1 «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:23.

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, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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