--- title: «We can't afford it» can mean there is no money for it, or that the… — Olympiad: what is really going on ★★★ · tree and pragmatics description: «We can't afford it» can mean there is no money for it, or that the money is needed for something that matters more. Who acts: We, money. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: what is really going on ★★★» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/61-olympiad-what-is-really-going-on/20/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Adult life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/) / [Olympiad: what is really going on ★★★](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/61-olympiad-what-is-really-going-on/) / 20 # Olympiad: what is really going on ★★★, sentence 20 «We can't afford it» can mean there is no money for it, or that the money is needed for something that matters more. **Who acts:** We, money · **What happens:** not afford, mean, be, need, matter · **To what, where:** film, money · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: what is really going on ★★★» of the adult life 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 (We, money), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:061-olympiad-what-is-really-going-on.lesson:20 # text = «We can't afford it» can mean there is no money for it, or that the money is needed for something that matters more. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 061-olympiad-what-is-really-going-on.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, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ _ 2 We we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 3 ca can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 afford afford VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 ccomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root 6 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obj _ _ 7 » » PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 8 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 mean mean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:conj 10 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 11 expl _ _ 11 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 ccomp _ _ 12 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 13 det _ _ 13 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 14 for for ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nmod _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 17 or or CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 18 that that SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj:pass _ _ 21 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux:pass _ _ 22 needed need VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 conj _ _ 23 for for ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 22 obl _ _ 25 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 26 nsubj _ _ 26 matters matter VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 acl:relcl _ _ 27 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 26 advmod _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=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 | **not** **afford** *in a quote* | can | We | film | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **mean** | can | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **be** | present | no money for film | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **need** | present · passive | | the money | | | | for something | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme | | 5 | **matter** | present | | | | | | | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | 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:061-olympiad-what-is-really-going-on.lesson:20`. **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, R6-punct-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: [Olympiad: what is really going on ★★★, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/61-olympiad-what-is-really-going-on/19/) - next →: [Olympiad: what is really going on ★★★, 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/61-olympiad-what-is-really-going-on/21/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/61-olympiad-what-is-really-going-on/)