The electric meter, the food bank and «we can't afford it», sentence 41
It's kind for a child to want to help, but sorting out money problems is a grown-up's job.
Who acts: fault, sorting · What happens: be, want, help, sort out, grow · To what, where: money problems, job
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 (fault, sorting), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 kind | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 kind | cop |
| 3 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 child | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 child | det |
| 6 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 kind | obl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 want | mark |
| 8 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 child | acl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 help | mark |
| 10 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 want | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 job | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 job | cc |
| 13 | sorting | sort | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 job | csubj |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 sorting | compound:prt |
| 15 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 problems | compound |
| 16 | problems | problem | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 sorting | obj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 job | cop |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 up | det |
| 19 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 up | amod |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 grown | punct |
| 21 | up | up | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 job | nmod:poss |
| 22 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 21 up | case |
| 23 | job | job | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 kind | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 kind | 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 | is | present | fault | for a child; kind property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | want | to-infinitive | fault not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | help not said to happen | to-infinitive | fault not said here | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | sort out | gerund | money problems | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent problem=Theme | |||||
| 5 | grow | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | is a | present | sorting | a grown up's job | 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:41.
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): 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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