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title: Free school meals are for families who don't have much money; lots o… — Money is tight: free school meals and second-han… · tree and pragmatics
description: Free school meals are for families who don't have much money; lots of children get them, and nobody should be teased for it. Who acts: school meals, families. 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
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# Money is tight: free school meals and second-hand uniform, sentence 24

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Free school meals are for families who don't have much money; lots of children get them, and nobody should be teased for it.

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**Who acts:** school meals, families · **What happens:** be, not have, get, tease · **To what, where:** much money, Lots, nobody

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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 (school meals, families), 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:24
# text = Free school meals are for families who don't have much money; lots of children get them, and nobody should be teased for it.
# 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
1	Free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	meals	meal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
8	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl:relcl	_	_
11	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	lots	lot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:conj
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
17	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	teased	tease	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	conj	_	_
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	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 | **is** | present | school meals and families *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for families | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **have** | present · do-support | families | much money |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient |
| 3 | **get** | infinitive | school meals and families | Lots *= lot* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |
| 4 | **tease** | should · passive |  | nobody |  |  |  | for money | vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

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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:24`.

**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. **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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