--- title: "We can't afford it" sometimes means there is no money for it, and s… — When money is tight · tree and pragmatics description: "We can't afford it" sometimes means there is no money for it, and sometimes that it is not worth the money compared with other things. Who acts: We, money. 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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 (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:009-when-money-is-tight.lesson:10 # text = "We can't afford it" sometimes means there is no money for it, and sometimes that it is not worth the money compared with other things. # 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): R7-rel-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=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:csubj 6 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obj _ _ 7 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 8 sometimes sometimes ADV RB PronType=Ind 9 advmod _ _ 9 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 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 , _ 23 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 18 sometimes sometimes ADV RB PronType=Ind 23 advmod _ _ 19 that that SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 21 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 22 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 23 advmod _ _ 23 worth worth ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 conj _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 compared compare VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 25 acl _ _ 27 with with ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obl _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 9 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 | family | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **mean** | present | | | | | | sometimes *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **be** | present | no money for family | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **not** **is** | present | money | | | | | sometimes, worth *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **compare** | participle | | the money *not said here* | | | | with other things | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with thing=Co-Patient | 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:009-when-money-is-tight.lesson:10`. **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): 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: [When money is tight, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/9-when-money-is-tight/9/) - next →: [When money is tight, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/9-when-money-is-tight/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/9-when-money-is-tight/)