--- title: No more takeout.» («Fixin' to» means about to; «tighten belts» means… — The electric meter, the food bank and «we can't… · tree and pragmatics description: No more takeout.» («Fixin' to» means about to; «tighten belts» means spend less.) «Are we poor?» «We're careful.» Tyrone helps Grandma make cornbread and feels useful. Who acts: Tyrone, means, we, Grandma. 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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 (Tyrone, means, we, Grandma), 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:15 # text = No more takeout.» («Fixin' to» means about to; «tighten belts» means spend less.) «Are we poor?» «We're careful.» Tyrone helps Grandma make cornbread and feels useful. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×4 1 No no DET DT PronType=Neg 3 det _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 2 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 3 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBR:Degree=Cmp 3 takeout takeout NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 parataxis _ _ 4 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct 5 » » PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 6 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 8 punct _ _ 7 « « PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ _ 8 Fixin Fixin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 appos _ _ 9 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ _ 10 to to ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 » » PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ _ 12 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Ptan 13 about about ADP IN _ 12 nmod _ _ 14 to to ADP IN _ 13 fixed _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 « « PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ _ 17 tighten tighten VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 18 belts belt NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:nsubj 19 » » PUNCT '' _ 21 punct _ _ 20 means means NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 21 nsubj _ _ 21 spend spend VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 22 less less ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 21 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBR:Degree=Cmp 23 . . PUNCT . _ 22 punct _ _ 24 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 22 punct _ _ 25 « « PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ _ 26 Are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 27 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 ccomp _ _ 29 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ 30 » » PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 31 « « PUNCT `` _ 34 punct _ _ 32 We we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 33 're be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 cop _ _ 34 careful careful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 acl _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ 36 » » PUNCT '' _ 37 punct _ _ 37 Tyrone Tyrone PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 38 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 39 Grandma grandma NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ _ 40 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 38 xcomp _ _ 41 cornbread cornbread NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obj _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 43 feels feel VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 conj _ _ 44 useful useful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 xcomp _ _ 45 . . PUNCT . _ 38 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: fragment - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=narrate | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** *in a quote* | present | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **tighten** | infinitive | Tyrone *not said here* | belts | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent belt=Patient | | 3 | **spend** *in a quote* | present | means | less | | | | | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent less=Asset | | 4 | **is** | present | we | | | | | poor *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **is** | present | We | no more takeout *not said here* | | | | careful *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **help** *in a quote* | present | Tyrone | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 7 | **make** *in a quote* | infinitive | Grandma | cornbread | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cornbread=Product | | 8 | **feel** *in a quote* | present | Tyrone *not said here* | | | | | useful *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | 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:488-the-electric-meter-the-food-bank-and-we-cant-afford-it.lesson:15`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×4. **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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