The electric meter, the food bank and «we can't afford it», sentence 38
Some parents find it hard to accept help because of pride, but help schemes exist so children stay warm and fed.
Who acts: parents, teacher, help schemes, children · What happens: find, accept, exist, stay · To what, where: teacher, help
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 (parents, teacher, help schemes, children), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 parents | det |
| 2 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 find | nsubj |
| 3 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 find | expl |
| 5 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 find | xcomp |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 accept | mark |
| 7 | accept | accept | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 hard | xcomp |
| 8 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 accept | obj |
| 9 | because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 11 pride | case |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 because | fixed |
| 11 | pride | pride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 accept | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 exist | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 exist | cc |
| 14 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 schemes | compound |
| 15 | schemes | scheme | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 exist | nsubj |
| 16 | exist | exist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 find | conj |
| 17 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 19 stay | mark |
| 18 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 stay | nsubj |
| 19 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 exist | advcl |
| 20 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 stay | xcomp |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 fed | cc |
| 22 | fed | fed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 warm | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 find | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | present | some parents | teacher | hard property | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | accept | to-infinitive | teacher not said here | help | because pride | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent help=Theme | |||
| 3 | exist | present | help schemes | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | stay | infinitive | children | warm property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:38.
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): 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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