--- title: Children often hear bits of grown-up money talk and imagine the wors… — The electric meter, the food bank and «we can't… · tree and pragmatics description: Children often hear bits of grown-up money talk and imagine the worst; asking a parent is usually less scary than guessing. Who acts: Children, asking. 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 depen --- [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/36/) [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/) / 36 # The electric meter, the food bank and «we can't afford it», sentence 36 Children often hear bits of grown-up money talk and imagine the worst; asking a parent is usually less scary than guessing. **Who acts:** Children, asking · **What happens:** hear, grow up, imagine, ask, be, guess · **To what, where:** bits, worst, parent 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 (Children, asking), 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:36 # text = Children often hear bits of grown-up money talk and imagine the worst; asking a parent is usually less scary than guessing. # 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): R4-particle ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 often often ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 hear hear VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 bits bit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 6 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 amod _ _ 7 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 8 punct _ _ 8 up up ADP RP _ 6 compound:prt _ Agree=R4-particle|Haiku=6:compound 9 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 talk talk NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 imagine imagine VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 worst bad ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 12 obj _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 16 asking ask VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 22 csubj _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 parent parent NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 20 usually usually ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 less less ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 22 advmod _ _ 22 scary scary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 parataxis _ _ 23 than than SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 24 guessing guess VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 22 advcl _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hear** | present | Children | bits of grown money talk | | | | often *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer bit=Stimulus | | 2 | **grow up** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **imagine** | present | Children *not said here* | the worst | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot bad=Theme | | 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | | | a parent | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent parent=Recipient | | 5 | **is** | present | asking | | | | | less, scary *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **guess** | gerund | asking *not said here* | | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: 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:36`. **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): R4-particle ×1, 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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