The electric meter, the food bank and «we can't afford it», sentence 37
Many parents work two jobs to pay the bills; children shouldn't be left alone at night for long, and a child who is scared or alone a lot should tell a parent or teacher.
Who acts: Many parents, child · What happens: work, pay, not leave, be, tell · To what, where: two jobs, bills, children, lot, parent · 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 (Many parents, child), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 parents | amod |
| 2 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 work | nsubj |
| 3 | work | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 jobs | nummod |
| 5 | jobs | job | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 work | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 pay | mark |
| 7 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 work | advcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 bills | det |
| 9 | bills | bill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 pay | obj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 children | punct |
| 11 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 left | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 left | aux |
| 13 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 left | advmod |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 left | aux:pass |
| 15 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 work | parataxis |
| 16 | alone | alone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 left | xcomp |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 night | case |
| 18 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 left | obl |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 long | case |
| 20 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 left | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 tell | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 tell | cc |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 child | det |
| 24 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 tell | nsubj |
| 25 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 scared | nsubj |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 scared | cop |
| 27 | scared | scared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 child | acl:relcl |
| 28 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 29 alone | cc |
| 29 | alone | alone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 scared | conj |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 lot | det |
| 31 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 alone | obl:unmarked |
| 32 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 tell | aux |
| 33 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 left | conj |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 parent | det |
| 35 | parent | parent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 tell | obj |
| 36 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 37 teacher | cc |
| 37 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 parent | conj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 work | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | work | present | Many parents | two jobs | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent job=Material | ||||
| 2 | pay | to-infinitive | Many parents not said here | the bills | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bill=Asset | ||||
| 3 | not leave | should · passive | children | night | for long; alone property | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme for long=Recipient | |||
| 4 | is | present | a child | scared property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | be | a child not said here | a lot | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | tell speech: assert | should | a child | a parent or teacher | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent parent=Recipient |
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:37.
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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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