Pocket money and earning it with chores, sentence 0
Pocket money, also called an allowance, is a small regular amount that parents give children so they can learn to handle money themselves.
Who acts: Pocket money, parents · What happens: call, be, give, learn, handle · To what, where: allowance, small regular amount, children, money · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Pocket money and earning it with chores» 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 (Pocket money, parents), 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 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 money | compound | ||
| 2 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 amount | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 money | punct |
| 4 | also | also | ADV | _ | 5 called | advmod |
| 5 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 money | acl |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 allowance | det |
| 7 | allowance | allowance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 called | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 money | punct |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 amount | cop |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 amount | det |
| 11 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 amount | amod |
| 12 | regular | regular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 amount | amod |
| 13 | amount | amount | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 give | obj |
| 15 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 give | nsubj |
| 16 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 amount | acl:relcl |
| 17 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 give | iobj |
| 18 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 21 learn | mark |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 learn | nsubj |
| 20 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 learn | aux |
| 21 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 give | advcl |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 handle | mark |
| 23 | handle | handle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 learn | xcomp |
| 24 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 handle | obj |
| 25 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 23 handle | obl:unmarked |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 amount | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | participle | Pocket money not said here | a allowance | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | Pocket money | a small regular amount | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | give | present | parents | a small regular amount | children | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent child=Recipient that=Theme | |||
| 4 | learn | can | parents = parent | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | handle | to-infinitive | parents = parent not said here | money | parents = parent obl:unmarked | vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=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:006-pocket-money-and-earning-it-with-chores.lesson:0.
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): 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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