Hiding it from friends: being skint at school, sentence 40

A child can tell a teacher just what they need, like «no computer at home», without telling all the family's business; schools can lend laptops.

Who acts: child, children, business, schools · What happens: tell, need, lend · To what, where: teacher, laptops · 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 (child, children, business, schools), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 child	det
2	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	aux
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 teacher	det
6	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	iobj
7	just	just	ADV	_	8 what	advmod
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 need	obj
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 need	nsubj
10	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	ccomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 computer	punct
12	like	like	ADP	_	15 computer	case
13	«	«	PUNCT	_	15 computer	punct
14	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	15 computer	det
15	computer	computer	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 need	obl
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 home	case
17	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 computer	nmod
18	»	»	PUNCT	_	15 computer	punct
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 telling	punct
20	without	without	SCONJ	_	21 telling	mark
21	telling	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 tell	advcl
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	26 business	det:predet
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 family	det
24	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 business	nmod:poss
25	's	's	PART	_	24 family	case
26	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 telling	obj
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 lend	punct
28	schools	school	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 lend	nsubj
29	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 lend	aux
30	lend	lend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 tell	parataxis
31	laptops	laptop	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 lend	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	can	a child		a teacher		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient clause=Topic
2	need	present	children = child			like no computer at home	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme
3	tell speech: assert	gerund	the family's business				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	lend	can	schools	laptops			vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent laptop=Theme

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:40.

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): R5-strong ×1, 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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