--- title: Volunteering means working without pay to help a good cause, like Gr… — Bad news, protests and helping others · tree and pragmatics description: Volunteering means working without pay to help a good cause, like Gran's shift at the charity shop. Who acts: Volunteering, Gran. 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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 (Volunteering, Gran), 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:18 # text = Volunteering means working without pay to help a good cause, like Gran's shift at the charity shop. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Volunteering volunteer NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:nsubj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 working work VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 xcomp _ _ 4 without without ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 pay pay NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 cause cause NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 like like ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 Gran Gran PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nmod:poss _ _ 14 's 's PART POS _ 13 case _ _ 15 shift shift NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 16 at at ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 charity charity NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 shop shop NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 20 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1: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 | Volunteering | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **work** *not said to happen* | gerund | Volunteering *not said here* | | | | | without pay | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **help** | to-infinitive | Volunteering *not said here* | a good cause | | | | like Gran's shift at the charity shop | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cause=Beneficiary | | 4 | **shift** | | Gran | | | the charity shop | | | nom shift «event transitive»: poss=agent at=place | 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:18`. **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, 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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