The electric meter, the food bank and «we can't afford it», sentence 33

If you see someone you know at a food bank, the kind thing is to keep it private.

Who acts: you, kind thing · What happens: see, know, be · To what, where: someone, food bank

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 (you, kind thing), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	3 see	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 see	nsubj
3	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 keep	advcl
4	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 see	obj
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 know	nsubj
6	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 someone	acl:relcl
7	at	at	ADP	_	10 bank	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 bank	det
9	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bank	compound
10	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 know	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 see	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 thing	det
13	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 thing	amod
14	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 keep	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 keep	cop
16	to	to	PART	_	17 keep	mark
17	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 keep	obj
19	private	private	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 keep	xcomp
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 keep	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see a condition, not said to happen	present	you	someone			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer someone=Stimulus
2	know	present	you		a food bank		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	present	the kind thing			keep, private property	tree rules

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:33.

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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