The electric meter, the food bank and «we can't afford it», sentence 5

In Toronto, Priyanka's mom has lost her job, so they go to a food bank, a place that gives free food to families who need it.

Who acts: mom, charities, place, families · What happens: lose, go, give, need, job · To what, where: job, Toronto, food bank, free food, families, food

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 (mom, charities, place, families), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 Toronto	case
2	Toronto	Toronto	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 lost	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Toronto	punct
4	Priyanka	Priyanka	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 mom	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Priyanka	case
6	mom	mom	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lost	nsubj
7	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 lost	aux
8	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 job	nmod:poss
10	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lost	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 go	punct
12	so	so	ADV	_	14 go	advmod
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 go	nsubj
14	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 lost	parataxis
15	to	to	ADP	_	18 bank	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 bank	det
17	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 bank	compound
18	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 go	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 place	punct
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 place	det
21	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 bank	appos
22	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 gives	nsubj
23	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 place	acl:relcl
24	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 food	amod
25	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 gives	obj
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 families	case
27	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 gives	obl
28	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 need	nsubj
29	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 families	acl:relcl
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 need	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 lost	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	lose	present · perfect	Priyanka's mom	mom's job		Toronto	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Eventuality
2	go	present	charities = charity			a food bank	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bank=Initial_Location
3	give	present	a place	free food	families		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent food=Theme to family=Recipient
4	need	present	families	food			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme
5	job		mom				nom job «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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:5.

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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