The electric meter, the food bank and «we can't afford it», sentence 4

Many families face this, it's nobody's fault, and there is emergency credit, and charities and the council can help if it keeps happening.

Who acts: Many families, tea, emergency credit, charities · What happens: face, be, help, keep, happen · To what, where: this, fault

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 families, tea, emergency credit, charities), 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 families	amod
2	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 face	nsubj
3	face	face	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 face	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 fault	punct
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 fault	nsubj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 fault	cop
8	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	10 fault	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 nobody	case
10	fault	fault	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 face	parataxis
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 is	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 is	cc
13	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	14 is	expl
14	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 face	parataxis
15	emergency	emergency	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 credit	compound
16	credit	credit	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 is	nsubj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 help	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 help	cc
19	charities	charity	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 help	nsubj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 council	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 council	det
22	council	council	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 charities	conj
23	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 help	aux
24	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 face	parataxis
25	if	if	SCONJ	_	27 keeps	mark
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 keeps	nsubj
27	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 help	advcl
28	happening	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 keeps	xcomp
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 face	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	face	present	Many families	this		vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme this=Destination
2	is a	present	tea	nobody's fault		tree rules
3	be	present	emergency credit		there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	help	can	charities and the council			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
5	keep a condition, not said to happen	present	tea			tree rules
6	happen	gerund	tea not said here			vn occur-48.3-1 «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:4.

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): no change. 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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