When money is tight: "we can't afford it", sentence 16
Communities help each other: a family that receives a £40 hamper one year may give one the next.
Who acts: Communities, family · What happens: help, receive, give · To what, where: each, £ hamper, one
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 (Communities, family), 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 | Communities | community | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 help | nsubj |
| 2 | help | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 2 help | obj |
| 4 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 each | fixed |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 receives | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 family | det |
| 7 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Communities | appos |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 receives | nsubj |
| 9 | receives | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 family | acl:relcl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 hamper | det |
| 11 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 13 hamper | compound |
| 12 | 40 | 40 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 £ | flat |
| 13 | hamper | hamper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 receives | obj |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 year | nummod |
| 15 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 receives | obl |
| 16 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 give | aux |
| 17 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 receives | conj |
| 18 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 give | obj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 next | det |
| 20 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 give | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 help | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | present | Communities | each | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | receive | present | a family | a £ hamper | year | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hamper=Theme | |||
| 3 | give | may | a family not said here | one | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent one=Recipient next=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:16.
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 ×2, 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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