--- title: Some homes have a meter you pay for in advance, like a pay-as-you-go… — The electric meter, the food bank and «we can't… · tree and pragmatics description: Some homes have a meter you pay for in advance, like a pay-as-you-go phone: when the money on it runs out, the electricity stops. Who acts: homes, you, money, electricity. 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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 (homes, you, money, electricity), 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:2 # text = Some homes have a meter you pay for in advance, like a pay-as-you-go phone: when the money on it runs out, the electricity stops. # 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 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 det _ _ 2 homes home NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 meter meter NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 pay pay VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 8 for for ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 advance advance NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 12 like like ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 14 pay pay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 compound _ _ 15 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 20 punct _ _ 16 as as SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 17 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 16 punct _ _ 18 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 19 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 18 punct _ _ 20 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 conj _ _ 21 phone phone NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 parataxis _ _ 22 : : PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 23 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 28 advmod _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 26 on on ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nmod _ _ 28 runs run VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 29 out out ADP RP _ 28 compound:prt _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=28:punct 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 electricity electricity NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 33 stops stop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 conj _ _ 34 . . 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 | some homes | a meter | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meter=Patient | | 2 | **pay** | present | you | a meter *not said here* | | | | for advance | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent meter=Asset for advance=Theme | | 3 | **pay** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **go** | infinitive | you | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **run out** | present | the money on phone | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **stop** | present | the electricity | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | 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:2`. **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. **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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