The electric meter, the food bank and «we can't afford it», sentence 27

He gives it to Dad, who laughs, hugs him and says, «Spend a pound on sweets, eh.» Wanting to help is kind, but fixing money problems is a grown-up's job.

Who acts: dad, Wanting, fixing · What happens: give, laugh, hug, say, spend, want · To what, where: till, Dad, pound, sweets, money problems, job · 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 (dad, Wanting, fixing), 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 gives	nsubj
2	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gives	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 Dad	case
5	Dad	Dad	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 gives	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 laughs	punct
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 laughs	nsubj
8	laughs	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 Dad	acl:relcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 hugs	punct
10	hugs	hug	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 laughs	conj
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 hugs	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 says	cc
13	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 hugs	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 Spend	punct
15	«	«	PUNCT	_	16 Spend	punct
16	Spend	spend	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	13 says	ccomp
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 pound	det
18	pound	pound	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 Spend	obj
19	on	on	ADP	_	20 sweets	case
20	sweets	sweet	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 Spend	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 eh	punct
22	eh	eh	INTJ	_	16 Spend	discourse
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 gives	punct
24	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 gives	punct
25	Wanting	want	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	29 kind	csubj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 help	mark
27	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 Wanting	xcomp
28	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 kind	cop
29	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 gives	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 kind	punct
31	but	but	CCONJ	_	41 job	cc
32	fixing	fix	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	41 job	csubj
33	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 problems	compound
34	problems	problem	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 fixing	obj
35	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 job	cop
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 job	det
37	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	39 up	amod
38	-	-	PUNCT	_	37 grown	punct
39	up	up	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 job	nmod:poss
40	's	's	PART	_	39 up	case
41	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 kind	conj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 gives	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: pos
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	give	present	dad	till	Dad		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to dad=Recipient
2	laugh	present	Dad				vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	hug	present	Dad not said here	dad			vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent
4	say speech: assert	present	Dad not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	spend in a quote	infinitive		a pound		on sweets goal	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent pound=Asset on sweet=Goal
6	want	gerund					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
7	help not said to happen	to-infinitive					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
8	is	present	Wanting			kind property	tree rules
9	fix	gerund		money problems			vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent problem=Patient
10	grow	participle					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
11	is a	present	fixing	grown up's job			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:27.

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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×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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