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title: "Cash flow problem" often means having no money to pay the bills. — Soft words for hard things: money and poverty an… · tree and pragmatics
description: "Cash flow problem" often means having no money to pay the bills. Who acts: flow problem. A sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: money and poverty and work, firing and the economy» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# Soft words for hard things: money and poverty and work, firing and the economy, sentence 11

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"Cash flow problem" often means having no money to pay the bills.

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**Who acts:** flow problem · **What happens:** mean, have, pay · **To what, where:** money, bills

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: money and poverty and work, firing and the economy» 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 (flow problem), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:euphemisms:020-debt-and-jobs.lesson:11
# text = "Cash flow problem" often means having no money to pay the bills.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = euphemisms
# lesson = 020-debt-and-jobs.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, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	_
2	Cash	cash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	flow	flow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	problem	problem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
6	often	often	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	having	have	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:ccomp
9	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	10	det	_	_
10	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	acl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:advcl
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	bills	bill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **mean** | present | flow problem |  |  |  |  | often *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **have** *not said to happen* | gerund | flow problem *not said here* | no money |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient |
| 3 | **pay** | to-infinitive | flow problem *not said here* | the bills |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bill=Asset |

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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:euphemisms:020-debt-and-jobs.lesson:11`.

**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, 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/).

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