When money is tight: "we can't afford it", sentence 4

Making fun of someone's cheap trainers or free lunch is unkind and wrong; what matters is who a person is, not what they wear.

Who acts: Making, person, worries · What happens: make, be, matter, not be, wear · To what, where: fun

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 (Making, person, worries), 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	Making	make	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 unkind	csubj
2	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Making	obj
3	of	of	ADP	_	7 trainers	case
4	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 trainers	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 someone	case
6	cheap	cheap	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 trainers	amod
7	trainers	trainer	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 fun	nmod
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 lunch	cc
9	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 lunch	amod
10	lunch	lunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 trainers	conj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 unkind	cop
12	unkind	unkind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 wrong	cc
14	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 unkind	conj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 who	punct
16	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 who	nsubj
17	matters	matter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 what	acl:relcl
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 who	cop
19	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 unkind	parataxis
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 person	det
21	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 what	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 what	cop
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 is	punct
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 what	advmod
25	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 who	nsubj
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 wear	nsubj
27	wear	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 what	acl:relcl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 unkind	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: evaluate
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: changed act=evaluate

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	gerund		fun of someone's cheap trainers or free lunch		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fun=Product
2	is	present	Making		unkind property	tree rules
3	be		Making not said here			tree rules
4	matter	present				vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
5	is a	present				tree rules
6	not is a	present	a person			tree rules
7	wear	present	worries = worry			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent

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:4.

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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