The electric meter, the food bank and «we can't afford it», sentence 28
In Norfolk, a bad harvest means one small present each for Maisie-Jo's family this Christmas.
Who acts: bad harvest · What happens: mean · To what, where: one small present
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 (bad harvest), 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 Norfolk | case |
| 2 | Norfolk | Norfolk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 means | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Norfolk | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 harvest | det |
| 5 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 harvest | amod |
| 6 | harvest | harvest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 means | nsubj |
| 7 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 present | nummod |
| 9 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 present | amod |
| 10 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 means | obj |
| 11 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 present | nmod:unmarked |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 Maisie | case |
| 13 | Maisie | Maisie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 present | nmod |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 Maisie | punct |
| 15 | Jo | Jo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 family | nmod:poss |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 Jo | case |
| 17 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Maisie | appos |
| 18 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 Christmas | det |
| 19 | Christmas | Christmas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 means | obl:unmarked |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | a bad harvest | one small present each | for Maisie; in Norfolk; this Christmas obl:unmarked | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot present=Theme in norfolk=Attribute |
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:28.
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. 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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