--- title: "Receiving public assistance" (official US) means living on welfare:… — Soft words for hard things: money and poverty · tree and pragmatics description: "Receiving public assistance" (official US) means living on welfare: money the government gives to people who need help. Who acts: Receiving, government, people. A sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: money and poverty» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school with its depend --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/19-money-and-poverty/15/) [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/) / [Euphemisms](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/) / [Soft words for hard things: money and…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/19-money-and-poverty/) / 15 # Soft words for hard things: money and poverty, sentence 15 "Receiving public assistance" (official US) means living on welfare: money the government gives to people who need help. **Who acts:** Receiving, government, people · **What happens:** receive, mean, live, give, need · **To what, where:** public assistance, welfare, money, people, help · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: money and poverty» of the euphemisms 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 (Receiving, government, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:euphemisms:019-money-and-poverty.lesson:15 # text = "Receiving public assistance" (official US) means living on welfare: money the government gives to people who need help. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = euphemisms # lesson = 019-money-and-poverty.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 `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 Receiving receive VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 10 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:nsubj 3 public public ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 assistance assistance NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 6 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 8 punct _ _ 7 official official ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 US US PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 appos _ _ 9 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 8 punct _ _ 10 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 living live VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 10 ccomp _ _ 12 on on ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 welfare welfare NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 14 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 15 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 appos _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 government government NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 gives give VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 acl:relcl _ _ 19 to to ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ _ 21 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 22 nsubj _ _ 22 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 acl:relcl _ _ 23 help help NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **receive** *in a quote* | gerund | | public assistance | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent assistance=Theme | | 2 | **mean** | present | Receiving | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **live** | gerund | | | | welfare | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on welfare=Location | | 4 | **give** | present | the government | money *not said here* | people | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent money=Theme to people=Recipient | | 5 | **need** | present | people | help | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot help=Theme | 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:euphemisms:019-money-and-poverty.lesson:15`. **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: [Soft words for hard things: money and…, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/19-money-and-poverty/14/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: money and…, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/19-money-and-poverty/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/19-money-and-poverty/)