--- title: Sponsorship means people promise to give money to a charity if someo… — Bad news, protests and helping others · tree and pragmatics description: Sponsorship means people promise to give money to a charity if someone completes a challenge. Who acts: Sponsorship, people, someone. 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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 (Sponsorship, people, someone), 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:17 # text = Sponsorship means people promise to give money to a charity if someone completes a challenge. # 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): no change 1 Sponsorship sponsorship NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 promise promise VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 ccomp _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 xcomp _ _ 7 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 8 to to ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 charity charity NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 11 if if SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 12 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 13 nsubj _ _ 13 completes complete VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 advcl _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 challenge challenge NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | Sponsorship | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **promise** *speech: promise* | present | people | | | | | | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **give** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | people *not said here* | money | a charity | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent money=Theme to charity=Recipient | | 4 | **complete** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | someone | a challenge | | | | | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent challenge=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](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:17`. **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): no change. **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, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/32-bad-news-protests-and-helping-others/16/) - next →: [Bad news, protests and helping others, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/32-bad-news-protests-and-helping-others/18/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/32-bad-news-protests-and-helping-others/)