--- title: "On a fixed income" (US) means having little money, usually as a pen… — Soft words for hard things: money and poverty · tree and pragmatics description: "On a fixed income" (US) means having little money, usually as a pensioner, an old person living on a pension (money paid after you stop work). Who acts: old person, you. 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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 (old person, you), 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:23 # text = "On a fixed income" (US) means having little money, usually as a pensioner, an old person living on a pension (money paid after you stop work). # 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 ×2 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ _ 2 On on ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 fixed fix ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 income income NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:nsubj 6 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 7 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 8 punct _ _ 8 US US PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:dep 9 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 8 punct _ _ 10 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 having have VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 10 ccomp _ _ 12 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 usually usually ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 16 as as ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 pensioner pensioner NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 appos _ _ 23 living live VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 22 acl _ _ 24 on on ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 pension pension NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 27 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 28 punct _ _ 28 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 appos _ _ 29 paid pay VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 28 acl _ _ 30 after after SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 31 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 stop stop VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 advcl _ _ 33 work work NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 34 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 10 punct _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | | | | a fixed income | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **have** | gerund | | little money | | | | as a pensioner | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient | | 3 | **live** | gerund | a old person *not said here* | | | a pension | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on pension=Location | | 4 | **pay** | participle | | money *not said here* | | | | | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **stop** | present | you | work | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector work=Eventuality | 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:23`. **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 ×2. **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…, 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/19-money-and-poverty/22/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: money and…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/20-debt-and-jobs/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/19-money-and-poverty/)