Lending, sharing, charity and tipping, sentence 14
Kindness to people who are struggling, like buying a sandwich for a homeless man, treats people with dignity; £3 a week for a year is 52 × £3 = £156.
Who acts: people, Kindness · What happens: struggle, buy, treat · To what, where: sandwich, people
This is a sentence of the lesson «Lending, sharing, charity and tipping» 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 (people, Kindness), 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 | Kindness | kindness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 treats | nsubj |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 3 people | case |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Kindness | nmod |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 struggling | nsubj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 struggling | aux |
| 6 | struggling | struggle | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 people | acl:relcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 buying | punct |
| 8 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 9 buying | mark |
| 9 | buying | buy | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 struggling | conj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 sandwich | det |
| 11 | sandwich | sandwich | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 buying | obj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 man | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 man | det |
| 14 | homeless | homeless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 man | amod |
| 15 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 buying | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 people | punct |
| 17 | treats | treat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 treats | obj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 dignity | case |
| 20 | dignity | dignity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 treats | obl |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 treats | punct |
| 22 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 25 week | compound |
| 23 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 22 £ | nummod |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 week | det |
| 25 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 × | nsubj |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 year | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 year | det |
| 28 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 week | nmod |
| 29 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 × | cop |
| 30 | 52 | 52 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 31 × | nummod |
| 31 | × | × | SYM | Number=Sing | 17 treats | parataxis |
| 32 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 31 × | acl:relcl |
| 33 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 32 £ | nummod |
| 34 | = | = | SYM | _ | 35 £ | case |
| 35 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 32 £ | nmod |
| 36 | 156 | 156 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 35 £ | nummod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 31 × | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | struggle | present · progressive | people | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | buy | gerund | people not said here | a sandwich | for a homeless man | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent sandwich=Theme for man=Beneficiary | |||
| 3 | treat | present | Kindness to people | people | with dignity | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: agent=Agent people=Recipient with dignity=Theme |
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:039-lending-sharing-charity-and-tipping.lesson:14.
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): no change. 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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