--- title: A prepayment meter is paid in advance; when the money on it runs out… — The electric meter, the food bank and «we can't… · tree and pragmatics description: A prepayment meter is paid in advance; when the money on it runs out, the electricity or gas stops until it is topped up. Who acts: money, electricity. 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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 (money, electricity), 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:30 # text = A prepayment meter is paid in advance; when the money on it runs out, the electricity or gas stops until it is topped up. # 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 ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 prepayment prepayment NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 meter meter NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj:pass _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux:pass _ _ 5 paid pay VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 advance advance NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 8 ; ; PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 9 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 14 advmod _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 12 on on ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nmod _ _ 14 runs run VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:advcl 15 out out ADP RP _ 14 compound:prt _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:det 18 electricity electricity NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 19 or or CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 gas gas NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 conj _ _ 21 stops stop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 22 until until SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj:pass _ _ 24 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux:pass _ _ 25 topped top VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 advcl _ _ 26 up up ADP RP _ 25 compound:prt _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pay** | present · passive | | a prepayment meter | | advance | | | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset | | 2 | **run out** | present | the money on meter | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **stop** | present | the electricity or gas | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 4 | **top up** | present · passive | | electricity | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-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:30`. **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 ×2. **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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