The electric meter, the food bank and «we can't afford it», sentence 30

A prepayment meter is paid in advance; when the money on it runs out, the electricity or gas stops until it is topped up.

Who acts: money, electricity · What happens: pay, run out, stop, top up · To what, where: prepayment meter, advance, electricity

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 (money, electricity), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 meter	det
2	prepayment	prepayment	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 meter	compound
3	meter	meter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 paid	nsubj:pass
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 paid	aux:pass
5	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 advance	case
7	advance	advance	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 paid	obl
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	5 paid	punct
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 runs	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 money	det
11	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 runs	nsubj
12	on	on	ADP	_	13 it	case
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 money	nmod
14	runs	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 stops	advcl
15	out	out	ADP	_	14 runs	compound:prt
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 runs	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 electricity	det
18	electricity	electricity	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 stops	nsubj
19	or	or	CCONJ	_	20 gas	cc
20	gas	gas	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 electricity	conj
21	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 paid	conj
22	until	until	SCONJ	_	25 topped	mark
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 topped	nsubj:pass
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 topped	aux:pass
25	topped	top	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 stops	advcl
26	up	up	ADP	_	25 topped	compound:prt
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 paid	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	pay	present · passive		a prepayment meter	advance	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset
2	run out	present	the money on meter			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	stop	present	the electricity or gas			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	top up	present · passive		electricity		vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Theme

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:30.

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): R5-strong ×2. 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.

See the release 0.4.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/488-the-electric-meter-the-food-bank-and-we-cant-afford-it/30/