--- title: In Norfolk, a bad harvest means one small present each for Maisie-Jo… — The electric meter, the food bank and «we can't… · tree and pragmatics description: In Norfolk, a bad harvest means one small present each for Maisie-Jo's family this Christmas. Who acts: bad harvest. 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 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/488-the-electric-meter-the-food-bank-and-we-cant-afford-it/28/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [The electric meter, the food bank and…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/488-the-electric-meter-the-food-bank-and-we-cant-afford-it/) / 28 # The electric meter, the food bank and «we can't afford it», sentence 28 In Norfolk, a bad harvest means one small present each for Maisie-Jo's family this Christmas. **Who acts:** bad harvest · **What happens:** mean · **To what, where:** one small present 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 (bad harvest), 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:28 # text = In Norfolk, a bad harvest means one small present each for Maisie-Jo's family this Christmas. # 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 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 Norfolk Norfolk PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 harvest harvest NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 10 nummod _ _ 9 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 present present NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 11 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 10 nmod:unmarked _ _ 12 for for ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 Maisie Maisie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 14 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 13 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct 15 Jo Jo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nmod:poss _ _ 16 's 's PART POS _ 15 case _ _ 17 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 appos _ _ 18 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 19 det _ _ 19 Christmas Christmas PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 obl:unmarked _ _ 20 . . 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 | **mean** | present | a bad harvest | one small present each | | | | for Maisie; in Norfolk; this Christmas *obl:unmarked* | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot present=Theme in norfolk=Attribute | 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:28`. **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. **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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