The electric meter, the food bank and «we can't afford it», sentence 9
Lots of families use food banks, even families where the grown-ups work.
Who acts: Lots, grown ups · What happens: use, grow, work · To what, where: food banks
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 (Lots, grown ups), 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 | Lots | lot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 use | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 families | case |
| 3 | families | family | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Lots | nmod |
| 4 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 banks | compound |
| 6 | banks | bank | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 use | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 families | punct |
| 8 | even | even | ADV | _ | 9 families | advmod |
| 9 | families | family | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 banks | conj |
| 10 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 15 work | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 ups | det |
| 12 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 ups | amod |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 grown | punct |
| 14 | ups | up | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 work | nsubj |
| 15 | work | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 families | acl:relcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 use | 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 | use | present | Lots of families | food banks and families | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bank=Patient | ||||
| 2 | grow | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | work | present | the grown ups | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=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:9.
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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