Refugees, aid and sanctions: how the world helps and pushes, sentence 19

Charities often prefer money to tins and clothes, because they can buy what is needed near the crisis faster and more cheaply.

Who acts: Charities, sanctions · What happens: prefer, buy, need · To what, where: money, crisis

This is a sentence of the lesson «Refugees, aid and sanctions: how the world helps and pushes» of the politics 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 (Charities, sanctions), 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	Charities	charity	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 prefer	nsubj
2	often	often	ADV	_	3 prefer	advmod
3	prefer	prefer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 prefer	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 tins	case
6	tins	tin	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 prefer	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 clothes	cc
8	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	6 tins	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 buy	punct
10	because	because	SCONJ	_	13 buy	mark
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 buy	nsubj
12	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 buy	aux
13	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 prefer	advcl
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 needed	nsubj:pass
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 needed	aux:pass
16	needed	need	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 buy	ccomp
17	near	near	ADP	_	19 crisis	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 crisis	det
19	crisis	crisis	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 needed	obl
20	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	16 needed	advmod
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 more	cc
22	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	20 faster	conj
23	cheaply	cheaply	ADV	_	20 faster	conj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 prefer	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	prefer	present	Charities	money		to tins and clothes; often property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer money=Stimulus
2	buy	can	sanctions = sanction				vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	need	present · passive			the crisis	fast property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=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:politics:030-refugees-aid-and-sanctions-how-the-world-helps-and-pushes.lesson:19.

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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