The electric meter, the food bank and «we can't afford it», sentence 32

A food bank gives free food to families who need it; many families use them, including families where the grown-ups work.

Who acts: food bank, families, many families, grown ups · What happens: give, need, use, grow, work · To what, where: free food, families, food, charities

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 (food bank, families, many families, grown ups), 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 bank	det
2	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bank	compound
3	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gives	nsubj
4	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 food	amod
6	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gives	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 families	case
8	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 gives	obl
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 need	nsubj
10	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 families	acl:relcl
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 need	obj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 use	punct
13	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 families	amod
14	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 use	nsubj
15	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 gives	parataxis
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 use	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 families	punct
18	including	include	ADP	_	19 families	case
19	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 use	obl
20	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	25 work	advmod
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 ups	det
22	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 ups	amod
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 grown	punct
24	ups	up	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 work	nsubj
25	work	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 families	acl:relcl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 gives	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	give	present	a food bank	free food	families		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent food=Theme to family=Recipient
2	need	present	families	food			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme
3	use	present	many families	charities = charity		include families	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
4	grow	participle					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	work	present	the grown ups				vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=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:32.

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 ×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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