The electric meter, the food bank and «we can't afford it», sentence 40
Some families' money depends on things nobody controls, like the weather at harvest; a bad year is not anybody's fault.
Who acts: money, nobody, bad year · What happens: depend, control, not be · To what, where: things, 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 (money, nobody, bad year), 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 families | det |
| 2 | families | family | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 money | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 2 families | case |
| 4 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 depends | nsubj |
| 5 | depends | depend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 things | case |
| 7 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 depends | obl |
| 8 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 9 controls | nsubj |
| 9 | controls | control | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 things | acl:relcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 weather | punct |
| 11 | like | like | ADP | _ | 13 weather | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 weather | det |
| 13 | weather | weather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 things | appos |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 harvest | case |
| 15 | harvest | harvest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 weather | nmod |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 5 depends | punct |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 year | det |
| 18 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 year | amod |
| 19 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 fault | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 fault | cop |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 fault | advmod |
| 22 | anybody | anybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 24 fault | nmod:poss |
| 23 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 22 anybody | case |
| 24 | fault | fault | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 depends | parataxis |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 depends | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | depend | present | some families's money | on things | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent on thing=Theme | ||||
| 2 | control | present | nobody | things not said here | vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not is a | present | a bad year | anybody's fault | tree rules |
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:40.
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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