When money is tight: "we can't afford it", sentence 15
A charity shop sells donated things and gives the money to a good cause.
Who acts: charity shop · What happens: sell, donate, give · To what, where: donated things, money, good cause
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 (charity shop), 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 | 3 shop | det |
| 2 | charity | charity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shop | compound |
| 3 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sells | nsubj |
| 4 | sells | sell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | donated | donate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 things | amod |
| 6 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sells | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 gives | cc |
| 8 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 sells | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 money | det |
| 10 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gives | obj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 cause | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 cause | det |
| 13 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 cause | amod |
| 14 | cause | cause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gives | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sells | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sell | present | a charity shop | donated things | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme | ||||
| 2 | donate | participle | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | give | present | a charity shop not said here | the money | a good cause | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent money=Theme to cause=Recipient |
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:15.
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. 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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