Hard things at home: broken promises, silence, money and illness, sentence 13

Many families struggle to afford enough food; it is nothing to be ashamed of, and schools (breakfast clubs, free school meals) and food banks help.

Who acts: Many families, food, schools · What happens: struggle, afford, be, asham, help · To what, where: enough food, nothing

This is a sentence of the lesson «Hard things at home: broken promises, silence, money and illness» of the reflection 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 (Many families, food, schools), 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	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 families	amod
2	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 struggle	nsubj
3	struggle	struggle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 afford	mark
5	afford	afford	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 struggle	xcomp
6	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 food	amod
7	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 afford	obj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 nothing	punct
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 nothing	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 nothing	cop
11	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 struggle	parataxis
12	to	to	PART	_	14 ashamed	mark
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 ashamed	aux:pass
14	ashamed	asham	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 nothing	acl
15	of	of	ADP	_	14 ashamed	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 help	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 help	cc
18	schools	school	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 help	nsubj
19	(	(	PUNCT	_	21 clubs	punct
20	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 clubs	compound
21	clubs	club	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 schools	appos
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 meals	punct
23	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 school	amod
24	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 meals	compound
25	meals	meal	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 clubs	conj
26	)	)	PUNCT	_	21 clubs	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 banks	cc
28	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 banks	compound
29	banks	bank	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 schools	conj
30	help	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 nothing	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 struggle	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	struggle	present	Many families		tree rules
2	afford	to-infinitive	Many families not said here	enough food	tree rules
3	is a	present	food	nothing	tree rules
4	asham	to-infinitive · passive	Many families not said here		tree rules
5	help	present	schools and food banks		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

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:reflection:013-hard-things-at-home-broken-promises-silence-money-and-illness.lesson:13.

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, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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