--- title: Many parents work two jobs to pay the bills; children shouldn't be l… — The electric meter, the food bank and «we can't… · tree and pragmatics description: Many parents work two jobs to pay the bills; children shouldn't be left alone at night for long, and a child who is scared or alone a lot should tell a parent or teacher. Who acts: Many parents, child. 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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 (Many parents, child), 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:37 # text = Many parents work two jobs to pay the bills; children shouldn't be left alone at night for long, and a child who is scared or alone a lot should tell a parent or teacher. # 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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 work work VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 jobs job NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 pay pay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:acl 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 bills bill NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj:pass _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:nsubj:pass 12 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 13 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 15 advmod _ _ 14 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 15 aux:pass _ _ 15 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 3 parataxis _ _ 16 alone alone ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 xcomp _ _ 17 at at ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 19 for for ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 obl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=27:punct 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 25 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 27 nsubj _ _ 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 27 scared scared ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 acl:relcl _ _ 28 or or CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 alone alone ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=27:conj|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 lot lot NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl:unmarked _ _ 32 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 33 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 conj _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 parent parent NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 36 or or CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 conj _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **work** | present | Many parents | two jobs | | | | | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent job=Material | | 2 | **pay** | to-infinitive | Many parents *not said here* | the bills | | | | | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bill=Asset | | 3 | **not** **leave** | should · passive | | children | | | night | for long; alone *property* | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme for long=Recipient | | 4 | **is** | present | a child | | | | | scared *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **be** | | a child *not said here* | a lot | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **tell** *speech: assert* | should | a child | | a parent or teacher | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent parent=Recipient | 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:37`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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