Comfortable families: enough, but not everything, sentence 40

Free school meals mean money is hard at home, so calling them «lucky» can hurt; if you get it wrong, say sorry.

Who acts: Free school meals, money, calling, you · What happens: mean, be, call, hurt, get, say · To what, where: home, meals · 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 (Free school meals, money, calling, you), 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	Free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 meals	amod
2	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 meals	compound
3	meals	meal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 mean	nsubj
4	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hard	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 hard	cop
7	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 mean	ccomp
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 home	case
9	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hard	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 hurt	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	18 hurt	advmod
12	calling	call	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 hurt	csubj
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 calling	obj
14	«	«	PUNCT	_	15 lucky	punct
15	lucky	lucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 calling	xcomp
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	15 lucky	punct
17	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 hurt	aux
18	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 mean	parataxis
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 say	punct
20	if	if	SCONJ	_	22 get	mark
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 get	nsubj
22	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 say	advcl
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 get	obj
24	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 get	xcomp
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 get	punct
26	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 mean	conj
27	sorry	sorry	INTJ	_	26 say	discourse
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 mean	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Free school meals				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	money		home	hard property	tree rules
3	call	gerund		meals = meal		lucky property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
4	hurt	can	calling				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
5	get a condition, not said to happen	present	you	home		wrong property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
6	say speech: assert	infinitive	Free school meals not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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:490-comfortable-families-enough-but-not-everything.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): R6-punct-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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