The electric meter, the food bank and «we can't afford it», sentence 34

«We can't afford it» means there isn't enough money left after rent, food and bills; it is not a punishment and not about love.

Who acts: We, enough money, bank · What happens: not afford, mean, not be, leave · To what, where: bank, enough money, punishment · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (We, enough money, bank), 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 afford	punct
2	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 afford	nsubj
3	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 afford	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 afford	advmod
5	afford	afford	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 means	ccomp
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 afford	obj
7	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 afford	punct
8	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	10 is	expl
10	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 means	ccomp
11	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 is	advmod
12	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 money	amod
13	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 is	nsubj
14	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 money	acl
15	after	after	ADP	_	16 rent	case
16	rent	rent	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 left	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 food	punct
18	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 rent	conj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 bills	cc
20	bills	bill	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 rent	conj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 punishment	punct
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 punishment	nsubj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 punishment	cop
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 punishment	advmod
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 punishment	det
26	punishment	punishment	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 means	parataxis
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 love	cc
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 love	advmod
29	about	about	ADP	_	30 love	case
30	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 punishment	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	not afford in a quote	can	We	bank			tree rules
2	mean	present					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not be	present	enough money		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	leave	participle		enough money not said here		after rent and food and bills	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	not is a	present	bank	a punishment and love			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:34.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1. 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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