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title: Prepayment meters often have emergency credit, and councils and char… — The electric meter, the food bank and «we can't… · tree and pragmatics
description: Prepayment meters often have emergency credit, and councils and charities can help families who run out often. Who acts: Prepayment meters, councils, families. 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 i
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# The electric meter, the food bank and «we can't afford it», sentence 31

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Prepayment meters often have emergency credit, and councils and charities can help families who run out often.

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**Who acts:** Prepayment meters, councils, families · **What happens:** have, help, run out · **To what, where:** emergency credit, families

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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 (Prepayment meters, councils, families), 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:31
# text = Prepayment meters often have emergency credit, and councils and charities can help families who run out often.
# 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
1	Prepayment	prepayment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	meters	meter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	often	often	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	emergency	emergency	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	credit	credit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=4:cc
9	councils	council	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=9:cc
11	charities	charity	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
12	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
14	families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
15	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	run	run	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
17	out	out	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	often	often	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Prepayment meters | emergency credit |  |  |  | often *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent credit=Patient |
| 2 | **help** | can | councils and charities | families |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent family=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **run out** | present | families |  |  |  |  | often *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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.

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**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. **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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