When money is tight: "we can't afford it", sentence 3
Children are never to blame for money worries; a hug, a bit of help and not asking for extras can mean a lot, and a trusted adult is there to talk to if worry gets heavy.
Who acts: Children, help, hug, trusted adult, worry · What happens: not be, not ask, mean, trust, be, talk · To what, where: extras, lot · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Children, help, hug, trusted adult), 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 | Children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 blame | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 blame | cop |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 blame | advmod |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 blame | mark |
| 5 | blame | blame | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 worries | case |
| 7 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 worries | compound |
| 8 | worries | worry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 blame | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 hug | punct |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 hug | det |
| 11 | hug | hug | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 mean | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 bit | punct |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 bit | det |
| 14 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 blame | parataxis |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 help | case |
| 16 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bit | nmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 asking | cc |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 asking | advmod |
| 19 | asking | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 help | acl |
| 20 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 23 mean | mark |
| 21 | extras | extra | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 asking | obl |
| 22 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 mean | aux |
| 23 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 asking | ccomp |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 lot | det |
| 25 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 mean | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 is | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 is | cc |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 adult | det |
| 29 | trusted | trust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 adult | amod |
| 30 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 is | nsubj |
| 31 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 blame | parataxis |
| 32 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 31 is | expl |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 talk | mark |
| 34 | talk | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 is | advcl |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 talk | obl |
| 36 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 38 gets | mark |
| 37 | worry | worry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 gets | nsubj |
| 38 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 talk | advcl |
| 39 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 gets | xcomp |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 blame | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | Children | for money worries; blame property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not ask speech: ask | gerund | help not said here | extras | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | mean | can | a hug | a lot | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Topic | ||||
| 4 | trust | participle | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | be | present | a trusted adult | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | talk | to-infinitive | a trusted adult not said here | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | get a condition, not said to happen | present | worry | heavy property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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:3.
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, 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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