The electric meter, the food bank and «we can't afford it», sentence 31
Prepayment meters often have emergency credit, and councils and charities can help families who run out often.
Who acts: Prepayment meters, councils, families · What happens: have, help, run out · To what, where: emergency credit, families
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 (Prepayment meters, councils, families), 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 | Prepayment | prepayment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 meters | compound |
| 2 | meters | meter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 have | nsubj |
| 3 | often | often | ADV | _ | 4 have | advmod |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | emergency | emergency | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 credit | compound |
| 6 | credit | credit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 have | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 help | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 help | cc |
| 9 | councils | council | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 help | nsubj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 charities | cc |
| 11 | charities | charity | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 councils | conj |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 help | aux |
| 13 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 have | conj |
| 14 | families | family | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 help | obj |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 run | nsubj |
| 16 | run | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 families | acl:relcl |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 run | compound:prt |
| 18 | often | often | ADV | _ | 16 run | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Prepayment meters | emergency credit | often property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent credit=Patient | |||
| 2 | help | can | councils and charities | families | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent family=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | run out | present | families | often property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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:31.
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. 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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