Pocket money and earning it with chores, sentence 8

Families have different incomes and rules; some pocket money must cover more things, like lunch, so comparing only the number tells you little.

Who acts: Families, pocket money, comparing · What happens: have, cover, compare, tell · To what, where: different incomes, more things, number, little, you · 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 (Families, pocket money, comparing), 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	Families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 incomes	amod
4	incomes	income	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 rules	cc
6	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 incomes	conj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 cover	punct
8	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	10 money	det
9	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 money	compound
10	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cover	nsubj
11	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 cover	aux
12	cover	cover	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 have	parataxis
13	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	14 things	amod
14	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 cover	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 lunch	punct
16	like	like	ADP	_	17 lunch	case
17	lunch	lunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cover	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 tells	punct
19	so	so	ADV	_	24 tells	advmod
20	comparing	compare	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 tells	csubj
21	only	only	ADV	_	23 number	advmod
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 number	det
23	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 comparing	obj
24	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 cover	advcl
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 tells	iobj
26	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 tells	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 have	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	have	present	Families	different incomes and rules			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent income=Patient
2	cover	must	some pocket money	more things		like lunch	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme thing=Destination
3	compare	gerund		the number			vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Patient
4	tell speech: assert	present	comparing	little	you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient little=Topic

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: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): R6-punct-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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