When money is tight: "we can't afford it", sentence 7

Money worries are stress about paying for things; they are grown-ups' job to sort, and children are never to blame.

Who acts: Money worries, stress, children, ups · What happens: be, pay, grow, sort, not be, job · To what, where: stress, worries

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 (Money worries, stress, children, ups), 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	Money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 worries	compound
2	worries	worry	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stress	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 stress	cop
4	stress	stress	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	about	about	SCONJ	_	6 paying	mark
6	paying	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 stress	acl
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 things	case
8	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 paying	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 grown	punct
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 grown	nsubj
11	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 grown	aux:pass
12	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 stress	acl:relcl
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 ups	punct
14	ups	up	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 job	nmod:poss
15	'	'	PUNCT	_	14 ups	punct
16	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 grown	obj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 sort	mark
18	sort	sort	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 job	acl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 blame	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 blame	cc
21	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 blame	nsubj
22	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 blame	cop
23	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	25 blame	advmod
24	to	to	PART	_	25 blame	mark
25	blame	blame	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 stress	conj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 stress	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Money worries	stress		tree rules
2	pay	gerund	stress not said here		for things	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for thing=Theme
3	grow	present · passive		worries = worry		vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP PP»: subject=Beneficiary job=Product
4	sort	to-infinitive				vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	not is	present	children		blame property	tree rules
6	job		ups			nom job «act intransitive»: poss=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:7.

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, R6-punct-agree ×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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