When money is tight: "we can't afford it", sentence 11
"Skint" is everyday British slang for having very little money.
Who acts: Skint · What happens: be, have · To what, where: everyday British slang, little money
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 (Skint), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Skint | punct |
| 2 | Skint | skint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 slang | nsubj |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Skint | punct |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 slang | cop |
| 5 | everyday | everyday | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 slang | amod |
| 6 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 slang | amod |
| 7 | slang | slang | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 9 having | mark |
| 9 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 slang | advcl |
| 10 | very | very | ADV | _ | 11 little | advmod |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 money | amod |
| 12 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 having | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 slang | 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 | Skint | everyday British slang | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | gerund | Skint not said here | little money | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient |
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:11.
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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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