--- title: He makes his own toast and puts himself to bed; children shouldn't b… — The electric meter, the food bank and «we can't… · tree and pragmatics description: He makes his own toast and puts himself to bed; children shouldn't be alone at night for long, so if he's scared, he should tell Mum or a teacher, and there may be help like an after-school club. Who acts: school, children, help. 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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 (school, children, help), 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:23 # text = He makes his own toast and puts himself to bed; children shouldn't be alone at night for long, so if he's scared, he should tell Mum or a teacher, and there may be help like an after-school club. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 4 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 toast toast NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 puts put VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 8 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 7 obj _ _ 9 to to ADP IN _ 10 case _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:case|HaikuPos=ADP:TO:_ 10 bed bed NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 12 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 13 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 14 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 16 advmod _ _ 15 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 16 cop _ _ 16 alone alone ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 17 at at ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 19 for for ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 16 obl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 22 so so ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 23 if if SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 24 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 25 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 26 scared scared ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 advcl _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 29 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 30 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 31 Mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 32 or or CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 conj _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 37 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 39 expl _ _ 38 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ _ 39 be be VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:ccomp 40 help help NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nsubj _ _ 41 like like ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 42 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 43 after after ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 43 punct _ _ 45 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 compound _ _ 46 club club NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nmod _ _ 47 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | present | school | school's own toast | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toast=Product | | 2 | **put** | present | school *not said here* | school | | | | to bed | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent himself=Goal | | 3 | **not** **is** | should | children | | | | night | alone *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **is** | present | school | | | | | scared *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | should | school | | Mum or a teacher | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mum=Recipient | | 6 | **be** | may | help like a school club | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:23`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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. 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