--- title: Asking isn't wrong, and a no isn't anyone's fault. — Money is tight: free school meals and second-han… · tree and pragmatics description: Asking isn't wrong, and a no isn't anyone's fault. Who acts: Asking, no. 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 and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/487-money-is-tight-free-meals-and-second-hand-uniform/22/) [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/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Money is tight: free school meals and…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/487-money-is-tight-free-meals-and-second-hand-uniform/) / 22 # Money is tight: free school meals and second-hand uniform, sentence 22 Asking isn't wrong, and a no isn't anyone's fault. **Who acts:** Asking, no · **What happens:** ask, not be · **To what, where:** fault 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 (Asking, no), 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:22 # text = Asking isn't wrong, and a no isn't anyone's fault. # 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): no change 1 Asking ask VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 csubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 no no NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 10 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 13 advmod _ _ 11 anyone anyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 13 nmod:poss _ _ 12 's 's PART POS _ 11 case _ _ 13 fault fault NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 14 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: evaluate - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: changed polarity=pos | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **not** **is** | present | Asking | | | | | wrong *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **not** **is a** | present | a no | anyone's fault | | | | | tree rules | 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:everyday:487-money-is-tight-free-meals-and-second-hand-uniform.lesson:22`. **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): no change. **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: [Money is tight: free school meals and…, 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/487-money-is-tight-free-meals-and-second-hand-uniform/21/) - next →: [Money is tight: free school meals and…, 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/487-money-is-tight-free-meals-and-second-hand-uniform/23/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/487-money-is-tight-free-meals-and-second-hand-uniform/)