Hiding it from friends: being skint at school, sentence 16

In Belfast, a girl says, «My dad says people on benefits are lazy.» Megan's mum gets benefits, money from the government, because she looks after Megan's disabled brother all day.

Who acts: girl, dad, people, mum · What happens: say, be, get, look · To what, where: Belfast, benefits, government · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Hiding it from friends: being skint at school» 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 (girl, dad, people, mum), 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 Belfast	case
2	Belfast	belfast	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 says	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Belfast	punct
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 girl	det
5	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 says	nsubj
6	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 says	punct
8	«	«	PUNCT	_	11 says	punct
9	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 dad	nmod:poss
10	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 says	nsubj
11	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 says	ccomp
12	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 lazy	nsubj
13	on	on	ADP	_	14 benefits	case
14	benefits	benefit	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 people	nmod
15	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 lazy	cop
16	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 says	ccomp
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 says	punct
18	»	»	PUNCT	_	22 gets	punct
19	Megan	Megan	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 mum	nmod:poss
20	's	's	PART	_	19 Megan	case
21	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 gets	nsubj
22	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 says	ccomp
23	benefits	benefit	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 gets	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 money	punct
25	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 benefits	conj
26	from	from	ADP	_	28 government	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 government	det
28	government	government	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 benefits	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 looks	punct
30	because	because	SCONJ	_	32 looks	mark
31	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 looks	nsubj
32	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 gets	advcl
33	after	after	ADP	_	37 brother	case
34	Megan	Megan	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 brother	nmod:poss
35	's	's	PART	_	34 Megan	case
36	disabled	disable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 brother	amod
37	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 looks	obl
38	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	39 day	det
39	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 looks	obl:unmarked
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 says	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	a girl		Belfast			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	say speech: assert in a quote	present	My dad					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is in a quote	present	people on benefits				lazy property	tree rules
4	get	present	Megan's mum	benefits and money	the government			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent benefit=Theme from government=Source
5	look	present	mum			after Megan's disabled brother; day		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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:489-hiding-it-from-friends-being-skint-at-school.lesson:16.

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 ×2. 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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