---
title: In Hull, the money Marley's mum gets from the government comes late,… — The electric meter, the food bank and «we can't… · tree and pragmatics
description: In Hull, the money Marley's mum gets from the government comes late, the fridge is nearly empty, and Mum makes «Marley's Magic Soup» out of everything left. Who acts: mum, money, fridge. A sentence of the lesson «The electric meter, the food bank and «we can't afford it»» of the everyday course of M
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/488-the-electric-meter-the-food-bank-and-we-cant-afford-it/18/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [The electric meter, the food bank and…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/488-the-electric-meter-the-food-bank-and-we-cant-afford-it/) / 18

# The electric meter, the food bank and «we can't afford it», sentence 18

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
In Hull, the money Marley's mum gets from the government comes late, the fridge is nearly empty, and Mum makes «Marley's Magic Soup» out of everything left.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** mum, money, fridge · **What happens:** get, come, be, make, leave · **To what, where:** money, government, Hull, Magic Soup, everything

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (mum, money, fridge), 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:18
# text = In Hull, the money Marley's mum gets from the government comes late, the fridge is nearly empty, and Mum makes «Marley's Magic Soup» out of everything left.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×3
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Hull	Hull	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:det
5	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
6	Marley	Marley	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	parataxis	_	_
14	late	late	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	advmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	fridge	fridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	empty	empty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=20:punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	Mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
25	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
26	Marley	Marley	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod:poss	_	_
27	's	's	PART	POS	_	26	case	_	_
28	Magic	Magic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	Soup	Soup	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
30	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	29	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct
31	out	out	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	24	obl	_	_
34	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	acl	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .note -->
No stored speech act for this sentence.

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | present | Marley's mum | the money *not said here* |  | the government |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent money=Theme from government=Source |
| 2 | **come** | present | the money |  |  | Hull |  | late *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hull=Location |
| 3 | **is** | present | the fridge |  |  |  |  | empty, nearly *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **make** | present | Mum | Marley's Magic Soup |  | everything |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soup=Product |
| 5 | **leave** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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:18`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×3. **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/).

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [The electric meter, the food bank and…, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/488-the-electric-meter-the-food-bank-and-we-cant-afford-it/17/)
- next →: [The electric meter, the food bank and…, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/488-the-electric-meter-the-food-bank-and-we-cant-afford-it/19/)
- ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/488-the-electric-meter-the-food-bank-and-we-cant-afford-it/)

