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title: In Sunderland, Dafydd's mum works part-time in a care home and money… — Money is tight: free school meals and second-han… · tree and pragmatics
description: In Sunderland, Dafydd's mum works part-time in a care home and money is tight, so Dafydd gets free school meals. Who acts: mum, money, Dafydd. A sentence of the lesson «Money is tight: free school meals and second-hand uniform» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree
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# Money is tight: free school meals and second-hand uniform, sentence 0

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In Sunderland, Dafydd's mum works part-time in a care home and money is tight, so Dafydd gets free school meals.

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**Who acts:** mum, money, Dafydd · **What happens:** work, be, get · **To what, where:** free school meals

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Money is tight: free school meals and second-hand uniform» of the everyday 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, money, Dafydd), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:487-money-is-tight-free-meals-and-second-hand-uniform.lesson:0
# text = In Sunderland, Dafydd's mum works part-time in a care home and money is tight, so Dafydd gets free school meals.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 487-money-is-tight-free-meals-and-second-hand-uniform.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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Sunderland	Sunderland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Dafydd	Dafydd	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	works	work	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
8	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	_
10	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
16	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	tight	tight	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	so	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
21	Dafydd	Dafydd	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
23	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:amod
24	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	meals	meal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **work** | present | Dafydd's mum |  |  |  | time | in a care home; in Sunderland | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in sunderland=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | money |  |  |  |  | tight *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **get** | present | Dafydd | free school meals |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer meal=Stimulus |

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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 ×2, R6-punct-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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