The electric meter, the food bank and «we can't afford it», sentence 29
«It's the weather, girl, not anybody's fault,» says Dad, and she makes everyone homemade cards.
Who acts: harvest, Dad, girl, anybody · What happens: be, say, make, fault · To what, where: weather, homemade cards, everyone · 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 (harvest, Dad, girl, anybody), 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 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 15 says | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 weather | nsubj |
| 3 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 weather | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 weather | det |
| 5 | weather | weather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 says | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 girl | punct |
| 7 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 weather | vocative |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 fault | punct |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 fault | advmod |
| 10 | anybody | anybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 12 fault | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 anybody | case |
| 12 | fault | fault | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 weather | parataxis |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 weather | punct |
| 14 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 15 says | punct |
| 15 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | Dad | Dad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 says | nsubj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 makes | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 makes | cc |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 makes | nsubj |
| 20 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 says | conj |
| 21 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 20 makes | obj |
| 22 | homemade | homemade | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 cards | amod |
| 23 | cards | card | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 makes | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 says | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- suggest
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | harvest | the weather | girl vocative | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | Dad | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | make | present | girl | homemade cards | everyone | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset everyone=Beneficiary card=Product | |||
| 4 | fault in a quote | anybody | nom fault «act transitive»: poss=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:29.
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): R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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