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title: Some parents find it hard to accept help because of pride, but help… — The electric meter, the food bank and «we can't… · tree and pragmatics
description: Some parents find it hard to accept help because of pride, but help schemes exist so children stay warm and fed. Who acts: parents, teacher, help schemes, children. 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 w
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# The electric meter, the food bank and «we can't afford it», sentence 38

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Some parents find it hard to accept help because of pride, but help schemes exist so children stay warm and fed.

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**Who acts:** parents, teacher, help schemes, children · **What happens:** find, accept, exist, stay · **To what, where:** teacher, help

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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 (parents, teacher, help schemes, children), 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:38
# text = Some parents find it hard to accept help because of pride, but help schemes exist so children stay warm and fed.
# 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 ×1
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	find	find	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	expl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:obj
5	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	accept	accept	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	11	case	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	fixed	_	_
11	pride	pride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	schemes	scheme	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	exist	exist	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
17	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
19	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
20	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	xcomp	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	fed	fed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	conj	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | present | some parents | teacher |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **accept** | to-infinitive | teacher *not said here* | help |  |  |  | because pride | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent help=Theme |
| 3 | **exist** | present | help schemes |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **stay** | infinitive | children |  |  |  |  | warm *property* | vn exist-47.1 «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): 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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