When money is tight: "we can't afford it", sentence 9

A food bank is a place that gives free food to people who need it; many families use one when money runs short, and it is nothing to be ashamed of.

Who acts: food bank, place, people, many families, money · What happens: be, give, need, use, run · To what, where: place, free food, people, food, one, nothing

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 (food bank, place, people, many families), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 bank	det
2	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bank	compound
3	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 place	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 place	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 place	det
6	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 gives	nsubj
8	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 place	acl:relcl
9	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 food	amod
10	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gives	obj
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 people	case
12	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 gives	obl
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 need	nsubj
14	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 people	acl:relcl
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 need	obj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 use	punct
17	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 families	amod
18	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 use	nsubj
19	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 gives	conj
20	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 use	obj
21	when	when	SCONJ	_	23 runs	mark
22	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 runs	nsubj
23	runs	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 use	advcl
24	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 runs	xcomp
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 nothing	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 nothing	cc
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 nothing	nsubj
28	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 nothing	cop
29	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	8 gives	parataxis
30	to	to	PART	_	32 ashamed	mark
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 ashamed	cop
32	ashamed	ashamed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 nothing	acl
33	of	of	ADP	_	32 ashamed	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 place	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a food bank	a place			tree rules
2	give	present	a place	free food	people		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent food=Theme to people=Recipient
3	need	present	people	food			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme
4	use	present	many families	one			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient
5	run	present	money			short property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	is a	present	money	nothing			tree rules
7	is	to-infinitive	a place not said here			ashamed 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:9.

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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