--- title: «We can't afford it» means there isn't enough money left after rent,… — The electric meter, the food bank and «we can't… · tree and pragmatics description: «We can't afford it» means there isn't enough money left after rent, food and bills; it is not a punishment and not about love. Who acts: We, enough money, bank. 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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 (We, enough money, bank), 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:34 # text = «We can't afford it» means there isn't enough money left after rent, food and bills; it is not a punishment and not about love. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ _ 2 We we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 3 ca can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 afford afford VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:csubj 6 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obj _ _ 7 » » PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 8 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 10 expl _ _ 10 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 ccomp _ _ 11 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 10 advmod _ _ 12 enough enough ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 14 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 13 acl _ _ 15 after after ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 rent rent NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=16:punct 18 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 bills bill NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=18:conj 21 ; ; PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 24 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 26 advmod _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 punishment punishment NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 parataxis _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 28 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 30 advmod _ _ 29 about about ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 love love NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 conj _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **afford** *in a quote* | can | We | bank | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **mean** | present | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **not** **be** | present | enough money | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **leave** | participle | | enough money *not said here* | | | after rent and food and bills | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **not** **is a** | present | bank | a punishment and love | | | | | 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:34`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-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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