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title: Grown-ups say money things in all sorts of ways. — The electric meter, the food bank and «we can't… · tree and pragmatics
description: Grown-ups say money things in all sorts of ways. Who acts: Grown ups. A sentence of the lesson «The electric meter, the food bank and «we can't afford it»» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The electric meter, the food bank and «we can't afford it», sentence 11

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Grown-ups say money things in all sorts of ways.

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**Who acts:** Grown ups · **What happens:** grow, say, sort · **To what, where:** money things, sorts, ways · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The electric meter, the food bank and «we can't afford it»» 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 (Grown ups), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:488-the-electric-meter-the-food-bank-and-we-cant-afford-it.lesson:11
# text = Grown-ups say money things in all sorts of ways.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 488-the-electric-meter-the-food-bank-and-we-cant-afford-it.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	Grown	grow	VERB	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	_
3	ups	up	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
9	sorts	sort	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	ways	way	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Grown ups | money things |  | all sorts of ways |  |  | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent thing=Theme in sort=Manner |
| 3 | **sort** |  |  | ways |  |  |  |  | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=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:488-the-electric-meter-the-food-bank-and-we-cant-afford-it.lesson:11`.

**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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