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title: In Swansea, Osian's mum has two jobs, café by day and cleaning offic… — The electric meter, the food bank and «we can't… · tree and pragmatics
description: In Swansea, Osian's mum has two jobs, café by day and cleaning offices at night, and leaves notes: «Love you, cariad, back at 10» («cariad» is Welsh for love). Who acts: mum, cariad. A sentence of the lesson «The electric meter, the food bank and «we can't afford it»» of the everyday course of Mova'
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# The electric meter, the food bank and «we can't afford it», sentence 22

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In Swansea, Osian's mum has two jobs, café by day and cleaning offices at night, and leaves notes: «Love you, cariad, back at 10» («cariad» is Welsh for love).

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**Who acts:** mum, cariad · **What happens:** have, leave, love, be · **To what, where:** two jobs, Swansea, notes, 10, you · **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 (mum, cariad), 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:22
# text = In Swansea, Osian's mum has two jobs, café by day and cleaning offices at night, and leaves notes: «Love you, cariad, back at 10» («cariad» is Welsh for love).
# 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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Swansea	Swansea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Osian	Osian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	jobs	job	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	café	café	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:compound
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	cleaning	cleaning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	offices	office	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	leaves	leave	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
22	notes	note	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
23	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
24	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	_
25	Love	love	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	parataxis	_	_
26	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	cariad	cariad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	back	back	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
31	at	at	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	obl	_	_
33	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	_
34	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	39	punct	_	_
35	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	36	punct	_	_
36	cariad	cariad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
37	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	36	punct	_	_
38	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	cop	_	_
39	Welsh	welsh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	parataxis	_	_
40	for	for	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
42	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	39	punct	_	_
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Osian's mum | two jobs |  | Swansea |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Patient |
| 2 | **leave** | present | Osian's mum *not said here* | notes |  | 10 |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **love** *in a quote* | present |  | you |  |  |  | cariad *obl* | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus |
| 4 | **is** | present | cariad |  |  |  |  | for love; welsh *property* | tree rules |

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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:22`.

**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, R8-pos-agree ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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