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title: School counsellors and charities often help children who need shoes… — Money is tight: free school meals and second-han… · tree and pragmatics
description: School counsellors and charities often help children who need shoes or a coat. Who acts: School counsellors, children. 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 e
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# Money is tight: free school meals and second-hand uniform, sentence 29

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School counsellors and charities often help children who need shoes or a coat.

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**Who acts:** School counsellors, children · **What happens:** help, need · **To what, where:** children, shoes

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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 counsellors, children), 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:29
# text = School counsellors and charities often help children who need shoes or a coat.
# 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	School	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	counsellors	counsellor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	charities	charity	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
5	often	often	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	help	help	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **help** | present | School counsellors and charities |  | children |  |  | often *property* | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **need** | present | children | shoes or a coat |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot shoe=Theme |

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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:29`.

**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/).

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