The electric meter, the food bank and «we can't afford it», sentence 35

«Tightening belts» means spending less for a while; families do it when money is tight, and it doesn't mean danger.

Who acts: Tightening, families, money, bank · What happens: tighten, mean, spend, do, be, not mean · To what, where: belts, less, bank, danger · 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 (Tightening, families, 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	_	2 Tightening	punct
2	Tightening	tighten	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 means	csubj
3	belts	belt	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Tightening	obj
4	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 Tightening	punct
5	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	spending	spend	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 means	xcomp
7	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 spending	obj
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 while	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 while	det
10	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 spending	obl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	5 means	punct
12	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 do	nsubj
13	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 means	parataxis
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 do	obj
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 tight	advmod
16	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 tight	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 tight	cop
18	tight	tight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 do	advcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 mean	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 mean	cc
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 mean	nsubj
22	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 mean	aux
23	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 mean	advmod
24	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 do	conj
25	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 mean	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	tighten in a quote	gerund		belts			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent belt=Patient
2	mean	present	Tightening				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	spend not said to happen	gerund	Tightening not said here	less	while		vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent less=Asset
4	do	present	families	bank			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
5	is	present	money			tight property	tree rules
6	not mean	present · do-support	bank	danger			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent danger=Topic

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:35.

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 ×1, 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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