Refugees, aid and sanctions: how the world helps and pushes, sentence 8

Ordinary people help too, and the smartest giving asks the helpers what they need and checks that a charity is real.

Who acts: Ordinary people, smartest giving, Helpers, charity · What happens: help, ask, need, check, be · To what, where: helpers

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 (Ordinary people, smartest giving, Helpers, charity), 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	Ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 people	amod
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 help	nsubj
3	help	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	too	too	ADV	_	3 help	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 asks	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 asks	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 giving	det
8	smartest	smart	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 giving	amod
9	giving	give	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 asks	nsubj
10	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 help	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 helpers	det
12	helpers	helper	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 asks	iobj
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 need	obj
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 need	nsubj
15	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 helpers	acl:relcl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 checks	cc
17	checks	check	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 asks	conj
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 real	mark
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 charity	det
20	charity	charity	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 real	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 real	cop
22	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 checks	ccomp
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 help	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	help	present	Ordinary people				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	ask speech: ask	present	the smartest giving		the helpers		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent helper=Recipient
3	need	present	Helpers = helper	the helpers			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme
4	check	present	the smartest giving not said here				vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	is	present	a charity			real property	tree rules

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: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): R2-punct-next ×1, 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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