The electric meter, the food bank and «we can't afford it», sentence 25
Children notice even when parents try to hide it.
Who acts: Children, parents · What happens: notice, try, hide · To what, where: teacher
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 (Children, parents), 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 | Children | Children | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 notice | nsubj |
| 2 | notice | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | even | even | ADV | _ | 6 try | advmod |
| 4 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 6 try | mark |
| 5 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 try | nsubj |
| 6 | try | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 notice | advcl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 hide | mark |
| 8 | hide | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 try | xcomp |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 hide | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 notice | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | notice | present | Children | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | try | present | parents | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | hide not said to happen | to-infinitive | parents not said here | teacher | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
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:25.
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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