The electric meter, the food bank and «we can't afford it», sentence 3
They eat tea by torchlight, which is an adventure until Lorcan gets cold.
Who acts: homes, torchlight, Lorcan · What happens: eat, be, get · To what, where: tea, adventure
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 (homes, torchlight, Lorcan), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 eat | nsubj |
| 2 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | tea | tea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 eat | obj |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 torchlight | case |
| 5 | torchlight | torchlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 eat | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 adventure | punct |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 adventure | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 adventure | cop |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 adventure | det |
| 10 | adventure | adventure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 torchlight | acl:relcl |
| 11 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 13 gets | mark |
| 12 | Lorcan | Lorcan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 gets | nsubj |
| 13 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 adventure | advcl |
| 14 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 gets | xcomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 eat | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | present | homes = home | tea | by torchlight | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tea=Patient | |||
| 2 | is a | present | torchlight | a adventure | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | get | present | Lorcan | cold property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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:3.
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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