--- title: In Limerick, Aoife's mam says, «We don't need charity,» about the wi… — The electric meter, the food bank and «we can't… · tree and pragmatics description: In Limerick, Aoife's mam says, «We don't need charity,» about the winter coat scheme, but Aoife's zip is broken; she can tell her teacher, who can talk to Mam gently. Who acts: mam, We, teacher. 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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 (mam, We, teacher), 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:24 # text = In Limerick, Aoife's mam says, «We don't need charity,» about the winter coat scheme, but Aoife's zip is broken; she can tell her teacher, who can talk to Mam gently. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 Limerick Limerick PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 Aoife Aoife PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod:poss _ _ 5 's 's PART POS _ 4 case _ _ 6 mam mam NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 9 « « PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ _ 10 We we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 11 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 12 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 13 advmod _ _ 13 need need VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 ccomp _ _ 14 charity charity NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21:punct 16 » » PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ _ 17 about about ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 19 winter winter NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 coat coat NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 scheme scheme NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 23 but but CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 24 Aoife Aoife PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 nmod:poss _ _ 25 's 's PART POS _ 24 case _ _ 26 zip zip NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj:pass _ _ 27 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux:pass _ _ 28 broken break VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 conj _ _ 29 ; ; PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 31 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 32 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj 33 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 36 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 38 nsubj _ _ 37 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 38 talk talk VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 acl:relcl _ _ 39 to to ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 Mam mam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=38:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 41 gently gently ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Aoife's mam | | | Limerick | | about the coat scheme | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **not** **need** *in a quote* | present · do-support | We | charity | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot charity=Theme | | 3 | **break** | present · passive | | Aoife's zip | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | can | mam | | mam's teacher | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient | | 5 | **talk** | can | mam's teacher | | Mam | | | gently *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to mam=Co-Agent | 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:24`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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. 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