--- title: A food bank gives free food to families who need it; many families u… — The electric meter, the food bank and «we can't… · tree and pragmatics description: A food bank gives free food to families who need it; many families use them, including families where the grown-ups work. Who acts: food bank, families, many families, grown ups. 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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 (food bank, families, many families, grown ups), 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:32 # text = A food bank gives free food to families who need it; many families use them, including families where the grown-ups work. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 bank bank NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 gives give VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 free free ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 to to ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 families family NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 9 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 10 nsubj _ _ 10 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 acl:relcl _ _ 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obj _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 families family NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 15 use use VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 16 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 including include ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 families family NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ _ 20 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 25 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:nmod 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 22 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 amod _ _ 23 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 22 punct _ _ 24 ups up NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 25 work work VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 acl:relcl _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 | **give** | present | a food bank | free food | families | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent food=Theme to family=Recipient | | 2 | **need** | present | families | food | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme | | 3 | **use** | present | many families | charities *= charity* | | | | include families | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | | 4 | **grow** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **work** | present | the grown ups | | | | | | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=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:32`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×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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