When money is tight: "we can't afford it", sentence 17

When grown-ups are stressed about money they may be snappy, but they still love their children; talking to a trusted adult helps a worried child.

Who acts: ups, talking · What happens: grow, stress, be, love, talk, trust · To what, where: grown ups, children, worried child

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 (ups, talking), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	6 stressed	mark
2	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 ups	amod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 grown	punct
4	ups	up	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 stressed	nsubj:pass
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 stressed	aux:pass
6	stressed	stress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 snappy	advcl
7	about	about	ADP	_	8 money	case
8	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stressed	obl
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 snappy	nsubj
10	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 snappy	aux
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 snappy	cop
12	snappy	snappy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 love	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 love	cc
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 love	nsubj
16	still	still	ADV	_	17 love	advmod
17	love	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 snappy	conj
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 children	nmod:poss
19	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 love	obj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 helps	punct
21	talking	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 helps	csubj
22	to	to	ADP	_	25 adult	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 adult	det
24	trusted	trust	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 adult	amod
25	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 talking	obl
26	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 love	conj
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 child	det
28	worried	worried	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 child	amod
29	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 helps	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 snappy	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	grow	participle						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	stress	present · passive		grown ups			about money	vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination
3	is	may	ups = up				snappy property	tree rules
4	love	present	ups = up	ups's children		still		vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer child=Stimulus
5	talk	gerund					to a trusted adult	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to adult=Co-Agent
6	trust	participle						vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
7	help	present	talking		a worried child			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Beneficiary

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:17.

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. 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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