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title: A food bank is a charity that gives free food parcels, usually after… — When money is tight · tree and pragmatics
description: A food bank is a charity that gives free food parcels, usually after a referral from someone like a school or a doctor. Who acts: food bank, charity. 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 of every 
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# When money is tight, sentence 17

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A food bank is a charity that gives free food parcels, usually after a referral from someone like a school or a doctor.

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**Who acts:** food bank, charity · **What happens:** be, give · **To what, where:** charity, free food parcels

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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 (food bank, charity), 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:17
# text = A food bank is a charity that gives free food parcels, usually after a referral from someone like a school or a doctor.
# 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): R5-strong ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	charity	charity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	parcels	parcel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
14	after	after	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	referral	referral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	16	nmod	_	_
19	like	like	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	doctor	doctor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:conj
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | a food bank | a charity |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **give** | present | a charity | free food parcels |  |  | after a referral from someone |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent parcel=Theme |

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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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**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: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): R5-strong ×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/).

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