--- title: A charity is an organisation that helps people, animals or the envir… — Bad news, protests and helping others · tree and pragmatics description: A charity is an organisation that helps people, animals or the environment, paid for by money the public gives. Who acts: charity, organisation, public. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (charity, organisation, public), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:032-bad-news-protests-and-helping-others.lesson:16 # text = A charity is an organisation that helps people, animals or the environment, paid for by money the public gives. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 032-bad-news-protests-and-helping-others.lesson # annotation = 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 charity charity NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 organisation organisation NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 7 nsubj _ _ 7 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 8 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 conj _ _ 11 or or CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 environment environment NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 paid pay VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 conj _ _ 16 for for ADP IN _ 15 obl _ _ 17 by by ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:det 20 public public NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 21 gives give VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 22 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a charity | a organisation | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **help** | present | a organisation | | people and animals or the environment | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Beneficiary | | 3 | **pay** | participle | a organisation *not said here* | | | | | by money | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **give** | present | the public | money *not said here* | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:adult-life:032-bad-news-protests-and-helping-others.lesson:16`. **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 ×2, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Bad news, protests and helping others, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/32-bad-news-protests-and-helping-others/15/) - next →: [Bad news, protests and helping others, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/32-bad-news-protests-and-helping-others/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/32-bad-news-protests-and-helping-others/)