When money is tight: "we can't afford it", sentence 8
Laughing at someone for having less money is unkind; trainers at £20 keep feet dry just like trainers at £80.
Who acts: Laughing · What happens: laugh, have, be · To what, where: someone, less money
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 (Laughing), 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 | Laughing | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 unkind | csubj |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 someone | case |
| 3 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 1 Laughing | obl |
| 4 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 5 having | mark |
| 5 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 someone | acl |
| 6 | less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 money | amod |
| 7 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 having | obj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 unkind | cop |
| 9 | unkind | unkind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 trainers | punct |
| 11 | trainers | trainer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 unkind | obl |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 £ | case |
| 13 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 16 feet | amod |
| 14 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 £ | nummod |
| 15 | keep | keep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 feet | compound |
| 16 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 trainers | nmod |
| 17 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 keep | xcomp |
| 18 | just | just | ADV | _ | 20 trainers | advmod |
| 19 | like | like | ADP | _ | 20 trainers | case |
| 20 | trainers | trainer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 keep | obl |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 £ | case |
| 22 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 9 unkind | obl |
| 23 | 80 | 80 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 22 £ | nummod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 unkind | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- changed act=assert, polarity=neg
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | gerund | someone | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | have | gerund | less money | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient | |||||
| 3 | is | present | Laughing | trainers £ keep feet obl; unkind property | tree rules |
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:8.
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. 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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