Pocket money and earning it with chores, sentence 9
Some families give pocket money only if certain jobs are done, the way grown-ups are paid only for work they do.
Who acts: families · What happens: give, do, pay · To what, where: pocket money, certain jobs, grown ups, work
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), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 families | det |
| 2 | families | family | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 give | nsubj |
| 3 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 money | compound | ||
| 5 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 give | obj |
| 6 | only | only | ADV | _ | 11 done | advmod |
| 7 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 11 done | mark |
| 8 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 jobs | amod |
| 9 | jobs | job | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 done | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 done | aux:pass |
| 11 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 give | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 done | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 way | det |
| 14 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 paid | obl |
| 15 | grown | grow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 ups | amod |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 ups | punct |
| 17 | ups | up | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 paid | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 paid | aux:pass |
| 19 | paid | pay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 give | advcl |
| 20 | only | only | ADV | _ | 19 paid | advmod |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 work | case |
| 22 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 paid | obl |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 do | nsubj |
| 24 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 work | acl:relcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 give | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present | some families | pocket money | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme | ||||
| 2 | do a condition, not said to happen | present · passive | certain jobs | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | pay | present · passive | grown ups | for work; the way obl | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Asset for work=Theme | ||||
| 4 | do | present | Families = family | work not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality |
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: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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