Comfortable families: enough, but not everything, sentence 27

In Oxford, Barnaby finds out his friend from the estate gets free school meals and says loudly, «That's lucky, free food!» His friend goes red: free meals mean money is hard at home.

Who acts: Barnaby, friend, That, free meals, money · What happens: find out, get, say, be, go, mean · To what, where: Oxford, free school meals, home · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Comfortable families: enough, but not everything» 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 (Barnaby, friend, That, free meals), 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 Oxford	case
2	Oxford	Oxford	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 finds	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 finds	punct
4	Barnaby	Barnaby	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 finds	nsubj
5	finds	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	out	out	ADP	_	5 finds	compound:prt
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 friend	nmod:poss
8	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 gets	nsubj
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 estate	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 estate	det
11	estate	estate	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 friend	nmod
12	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 finds	ccomp
13	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 meals	amod
14	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 meals	compound
15	meals	meal	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 gets	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 says	cc
17	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 finds	conj
18	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	17 says	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 says	punct
20	«	«	PUNCT	_	23 lucky	punct
21	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 lucky	nsubj
22	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 lucky	cop
23	lucky	lucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 says	ccomp
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 food	punct
25	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 food	amod
26	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 lucky	conj
27	!	!	PUNCT	_	23 lucky	punct
28	»	»	PUNCT	_	23 lucky	punct
29	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 friend	nmod:poss
30	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 goes	nsubj
31	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 finds	parataxis
32	red	red	ADJ	_	31 goes	xcomp
33	:	:	PUNCT	_	36 mean	punct
34	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 meals	amod
35	meals	meal	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 mean	nsubj
36	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 goes	parataxis
37	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 hard	nsubj
38	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 hard	cop
39	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 mean	ccomp
40	at	at	ADP	_	41 home	case
41	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 hard	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 finds	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	find out	present	Barnaby		Oxford		vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	get	present	Barnaby's friend from the estate	free school meals			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer meal=Stimulus
3	say speech: express	present	Barnaby not said here			loudly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is in a quote	present	That			lucky property	tree rules
5	go	present	Barnaby's friend			red property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	mean	present	free meals				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
7	is	present	money		home	hard 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:490-comfortable-families-enough-but-not-everything.lesson:27.

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, R5-strong ×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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