--- title: He gives it to Dad, who laughs, hugs him and says, «Spend a pound on… — The electric meter, the food bank and «we can't… · tree and pragmatics description: He gives it to Dad, who laughs, hugs him and says, «Spend a pound on sweets, eh.» Wanting to help is kind, but fixing money problems is a grown-up's job. Who acts: dad, Wanting, fixing. 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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 (dad, Wanting, fixing), 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:27 # text = He gives it to Dad, who laughs, hugs him and says, «Spend a pound on sweets, eh.» Wanting to help is kind, but fixing money problems is a grown-up's job. # 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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×1 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 gives give VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 obj _ _ 4 to to ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 Dad Dad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 8 nsubj _ _ 8 laughs laugh VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 hugs hug VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj 11 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obj _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=10:cc 13 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 « « PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ _ 16 Spend spend VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 13 ccomp _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 pound pound NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 on on ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 sweets sweet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 eh eh INTJ UH _ 16 discourse _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ 24 » » PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 25 Wanting want VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 29 csubj _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 xcomp _ _ 28 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 29 kind kind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 conj _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 31 but but CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=29:cc 32 fixing fix VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 41 csubj _ _ 33 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 compound _ _ 34 problems problem NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obj _ _ 35 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 41 cop _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 37 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 39 amod _ _ 38 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 37 punct _ _ 39 up up NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nmod:poss _ _ 40 's 's PART POS _ 39 case _ _ 41 job job NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 conj _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give** | present | dad | till | Dad | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to dad=Recipient | | 2 | **laugh** | present | Dad | | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **hug** | present | Dad *not said here* | dad | | | | | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Dad *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **spend** *in a quote* | infinitive | | a pound | | | | on sweets *goal* | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent pound=Asset on sweet=Goal | | 6 | **want** | gerund | | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 7 | **help** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **is** | present | Wanting | | | | | kind *property* | tree rules | | 9 | **fix** | gerund | | money problems | | | | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent problem=Patient | | 10 | **grow** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 11 | **is a** | present | fixing | grown up's job | | | | | tree rules | 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:27`. **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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×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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