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title: Every family has spells when money is tight: after a big bill, when… — When money is tight · tree and pragmatics
description: Every family has spells when money is tight: after a big bill, when work hours are cut, or when prices rise faster than pay. Who acts: family, money, prices. A sentence of the lesson «When money is tight» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# When money is tight, sentence 0

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Every family has spells when money is tight: after a big bill, when work hours are cut, or when prices rise faster than pay.

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**Who acts:** family, money, prices · **What happens:** have, be, cut, rise · **To what, where:** spells, work hours

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This is a sentence of the lesson «When money is tight» 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 (family, money, prices), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:adult-life:009-when-money-is-tight.lesson:0
# text = Every family has spells when money is tight: after a big bill, when work hours are cut, or when prices rise faster than pay.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = adult-life
# lesson = 009-when-money-is-tight.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	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	spells	spell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
6	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	tight	tight	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	acl:relcl	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
10	after	after	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	bill	bill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	19	advmod	_	_
16	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	cut	cut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	parataxis	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	24	advmod	_	_
23	prices	price	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
24	rise	rise	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
25	faster	fast	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	24	advmod	_	_
26	than	than	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	pay	pay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | every family | spells |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spell=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | present | money |  |  |  |  | tight *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **cut** | present · passive |  | work hours |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 4 | **rise** | present | prices |  |  |  |  | than pay; fast *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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.

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**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/).

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