--- title: Many schools have money to help families pay for trips, but a parent… — Money is tight: free school meals and second-han… · tree and pragmatics description: Many schools have money to help families pay for trips, but a parent has to ask, so the letter should always go home. Who acts: Many schools, families, parent, letter. 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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, families, parent, letter), 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:28 # text = Many schools have money to help families pay for trips, but a parent has to ask, so the letter should always go home. # 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 Many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 schools school NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 acl _ _ 7 families family NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 8 pay pay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 xcomp _ _ 9 for for ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 trips trip NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 but but CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 parent parent NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 xcomp _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 19 so so ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 letter letter NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 22 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 23 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 24 advmod _ _ 24 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 advcl _ _ 25 home home ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | 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* | families | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent family=Beneficiary clause=Theme | | 3 | **pay** | infinitive | families *not said here* | | | | | for trips | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for trip=Theme | | 4 | **have** | present | a parent | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **ask** *speech: ask* | to-infinitive | a parent *not said here* | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **go** | should | the letter | | | | | always, home *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:28`. **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. 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