Hiding it from friends: being skint at school, sentence 37
Benefits are money from the government for people who can't work, don't earn enough, or care for someone full-time; most people on benefits are not lazy.
Who acts: Benefits, people, most people · What happens: be, not work, not earn, care, not be · To what, where: money, government
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 (Benefits, people, most people), 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 | Benefits | benefit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 money | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 money | cop |
| 3 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 government | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 government | det |
| 6 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 money | nmod |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 people | case |
| 8 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 money | nmod |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 work | nsubj |
| 10 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 work | aux |
| 11 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 work | advmod |
| 12 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 people | acl:relcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 earn | punct |
| 14 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 earn | aux |
| 15 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 earn | advmod |
| 16 | earn | earn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 work | conj |
| 17 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 16 earn | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 care | punct |
| 19 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 20 care | cc |
| 20 | care | care | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 earn | conj |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 someone | case |
| 22 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 20 care | obl |
| 23 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 time | amod |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 full | punct |
| 25 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 care | obl |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 lazy | punct |
| 27 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 28 people | amod |
| 28 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 lazy | nsubj |
| 29 | on | on | ADP | _ | 30 benefits | case |
| 30 | benefits | benefit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 people | nmod |
| 31 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 lazy | cop |
| 32 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 33 lazy | advmod |
| 33 | lazy | lazy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 money | parataxis |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 money | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Benefits | money | the government | for people | tree rules | ||
| 2 | not work | can | people | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not earn | present · do-support | people not said here | enough property | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | care | present | people not said here | time | for someone | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for someone=Theme | |||
| 5 | not is | present | most people on benefits | lazy property | 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:489-hiding-it-from-friends-being-skint-at-school.lesson:37.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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