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title: But many schools have money to help with trips, and only a parent ca… — Money is tight: free school meals and second-han… · tree and pragmatics
description: But many schools have money to help with trips, and only a parent can ask, so by hiding the letter Bogdan decided for Mum. Who acts: many schools, parent, Bogdan. 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
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# Money is tight: free school meals and second-hand uniform, sentence 15

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But many schools have money to help with trips, and only a parent can ask, so by hiding the letter Bogdan decided for Mum.

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**Who acts:** many schools, parent, Bogdan · **What happens:** have, help, ask, hide, decide · **To what, where:** money, letter

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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 (many schools, parent, Bogdan), 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:15
# text = But many schools have money to help with trips, and only a parent can ask, so by hiding the letter Bogdan decided for Mum.
# 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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	schools	school	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	trips	trip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
12	only	only	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:advmod
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	parent	parent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
19	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
20	hiding	hide	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	advcl	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	letter	letter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	Bogdan	Bogdan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	decided	decide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Mum	Mum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=24:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **have** | present | many schools | money |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient |
| 2 | **help** | to-infinitive | many schools *not said here* | money *not said here* |  |  |  | with trips | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with trip=Theme |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | can | a parent |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **hide** | gerund | a parent *not said here* | the letter |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Patient |
| 5 | **decide** | past | Bogdan | the letter *not said here* |  |  |  | for Mum | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent letter=Topic |

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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:everyday:487-money-is-tight-free-meals-and-second-hand-uniform.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): R5-strong ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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