When money is tight: "we can't afford it", sentence 10

Free school meals are lunches paid for by the government for families who need them; at about £2.50 a day, they save a family £12.50 every five-day school week.

Who acts: Free school meals, families, meals · What happens: be, pay for, need, save · To what, where: lunches, meals, family

This is a sentence of the lesson «When money is tight: "we can't afford it"» of the money 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, families, 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	Free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 meals	amod
2	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 meals	compound
3	meals	meal	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 lunches	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 lunches	cop
5	lunches	lunch	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 lunches	acl
7	for	for	ADP	_	6 paid	compound:prt
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 government	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 government	det
10	government	government	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 paid	obl:agent
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 families	case
12	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 paid	obl
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 need	nsubj
14	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 families	acl:relcl
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 need	obj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	5 lunches	punct
17	at	at	ADP	_	19 £	case
18	about	about	ADV	_	19 £	advmod
19	£	£	SYM	_	25 save	obl
20	2.50	2.50	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Frac	19 £	nummod
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 day	det
22	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 £	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 save	punct
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 save	nsubj
25	save	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 lunches	parataxis
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 family	det
27	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 save	iobj
28	£	£	SYM	_	25 save	obj
29	12.50	12.50	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Frac	28 £	flat
30	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	35 week	det
31	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 day	nummod
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 five	punct
33	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 week	compound
34	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 week	compound
35	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 save	obl:unmarked
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 lunches	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Free school meals	lunches				tree rules
2	pay for	participle		lunches not said here			for families	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for family=Theme
3	need	present	families	meals = meal				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot they=Theme
4	save	present	meals = meal		a family	week		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent family=Beneficiary £=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:money:023-when-money-is-tight.lesson:10.

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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