The electric meter, the food bank and «we can't afford it», sentence 24

In Limerick, Aoife's mam says, «We don't need charity,» about the winter coat scheme, but Aoife's zip is broken; she can tell her teacher, who can talk to Mam gently.

Who acts: mam, We, teacher · What happens: say, not need, break, tell, talk · To what, where: Limerick, charity, zip, teacher, Mam · 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 (mam, We, teacher), 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 Limerick	case
2	Limerick	Limerick	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 says	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Limerick	punct
4	Aoife	Aoife	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 mam	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Aoife	case
6	mam	mam	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 says	nsubj
7	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 need	punct
9	«	«	PUNCT	_	13 need	punct
10	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 need	nsubj
11	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 need	aux
12	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 need	advmod
13	need	need	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 says	ccomp
14	charity	charity	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 need	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 need	punct
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 need	punct
17	about	about	ADP	_	21 scheme	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 scheme	det
19	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 coat	compound
20	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 scheme	compound
21	scheme	scheme	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 says	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 broken	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 broken	cc
24	Aoife	Aoife	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 zip	nmod:poss
25	's	's	PART	_	24 Aoife	case
26	zip	zip	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 broken	nsubj:pass
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 broken	aux:pass
28	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 says	conj
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 tell	punct
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 tell	nsubj
31	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 tell	aux
32	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 says	parataxis
33	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 teacher	nmod:poss
34	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 tell	obj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 talk	punct
36	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 talk	nsubj
37	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 talk	aux
38	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 teacher	acl:relcl
39	to	to	ADP	_	40 Mam	case
40	Mam	mam	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 talk	obl
41	gently	gently	ADV	_	38 talk	advmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 says	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Aoife's mam			Limerick	about the coat scheme	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not need in a quote	present · do-support	We	charity				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot charity=Theme
3	break	present · passive		Aoife's zip				vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
4	tell speech: assert	can	mam		mam's teacher			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient
5	talk	can	mam's teacher		Mam		gently property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to mam=Co-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:24.

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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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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