The electric meter, the food bank and «we can't afford it», sentence 36

Children often hear bits of grown-up money talk and imagine the worst; asking a parent is usually less scary than guessing.

Who acts: Children, asking · What happens: hear, grow up, imagine, ask, be, guess · To what, where: bits, worst, parent

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 (Children, asking), 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	Children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hear	nsubj
2	often	often	ADV	_	3 hear	advmod
3	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hear	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	10 talk	case
6	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 talk	amod
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 up	punct
8	up	up	ADP	_	6 grown	compound:prt
9	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 talk	compound
10	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bits	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 imagine	cc
12	imagine	imagine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 hear	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 worst	det
14	worst	bad	ADJ	Degree=Sup	12 imagine	obj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 scary	punct
16	asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 scary	csubj
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 parent	det
18	parent	parent	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 asking	obj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 scary	cop
20	usually	usually	ADV	_	21 less	advmod
21	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	22 scary	advmod
22	scary	scary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 imagine	parataxis
23	than	than	SCONJ	_	24 guessing	mark
24	guessing	guess	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 scary	advcl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 hear	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	hear	present	Children	bits of grown money talk		often property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer bit=Stimulus
2	grow up	participle					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	imagine	present	Children not said here	the worst			vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot bad=Theme
4	ask speech: ask	gerund			a parent		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent parent=Recipient
5	is	present	asking			less, scary property	tree rules
6	guess	gerund	asking not said here				vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: 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:36.

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): R4-particle ×1, R6-punct-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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