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title: Example: in a kitchen in Auckland, Mum spreads the bills on the tabl… — When money is tight · tree and pragmatics
description: Example: in a kitchen in Auckland, Mum spreads the bills on the table and says "Let's sit down and do a budget." The children help write a list: rent, power, food, bus fares, and what is left. Who acts: Mum, 's, children. A sentence of the lesson «When money is tight» of the adult life course of Mov
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# When money is tight, sentence 5

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Example: in a kitchen in Auckland, Mum spreads the bills on the table and says "Let's sit down and do a budget." The children help write a list: rent, power, food, bus fares, and what is left.

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**Who acts:** Mum, 's, children · **What happens:** spread, say, let, sit down, do, help · **To what, where:** bills, kitchen, 's, budget, list, rent · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Mum, 's, children), 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:5
# text = Example: in a kitchen in Auckland, Mum spreads the bills on the table and says "Let's sit down and do a budget." The children help write a list: rent, power, food, bus fares, and what is left.
# 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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Example	example	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	dislocated	_	_
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Auckland	Auckland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
9	Mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	spreads	spread	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	bills	bill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:nmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
18	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	_
19	Let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	ccomp	_	_
20	's	us	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
22	down	down	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:conj
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	budget	budget	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
28	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	31	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=31:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_
29	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj	_	_
31	help	help	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
32	write	write	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	xcomp	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	list	list	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
35	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	36	punct	_	_
36	rent	rent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	appos	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:parataxis|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
38	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=36:obj
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
40	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	conj	_	_
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
42	bus	bus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	_
43	fares	fare	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	conj	_	_
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
46	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	48	nsubj	_	_
47	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	48	aux:pass	_	_
48	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	36	advcl	_	_
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=decl, act=narrate, voice=narrator

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spread** | present | Mum | the bills |  | a kitchen in Auckland |  | on the table; Example *dislocated* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bill=Theme in kitchen=Destination |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Mum *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | 's |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **sit down** *in a quote* | infinitive | 's *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **do** *in a quote* | infinitive | 's *not said here* | a budget |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent budget=Eventuality |
| 6 | **help** | present | the children |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 7 | **write** | infinitive | the children *not said here* | a list |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent list=Theme |
| 8 | **leave** | present · passive |  | rent and power and food and bus fares |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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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**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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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