--- title: Many families face this, it's nobody's fault, and there is emergency… — The electric meter, the food bank and «we can't… · tree and pragmatics description: Many families face this, it's nobody's fault, and there is emergency credit, and charities and the council can help if it keeps happening. Who acts: Many families, tea, emergency credit, charities. 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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 families, tea, emergency credit, charities), 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:4 # text = Many families face this, it's nobody's fault, and there is emergency credit, and charities and the council can help if it keeps happening. # 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): no change 1 Many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 families family NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 face face VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 3 obj _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 6 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 7 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 8 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 10 nmod:poss _ _ 9 's 's PART POS _ 8 case _ _ 10 fault fault NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 parataxis _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 14 expl _ _ 14 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 15 emergency emergency NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 credit credit NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 19 charities charity NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 council council NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 conj _ _ 23 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 24 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ _ 25 if if SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 26 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 keeps keep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 advcl _ _ 28 happening happen VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 27 xcomp _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | **face** | present | Many families | this | | | | | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme this=Destination | | 2 | **is a** | present | tea | nobody's fault | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **be** | present | emergency credit | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **help** | can | charities and the council | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **keep** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | tea | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **happen** | gerund | tea *not said here* | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:4`. **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): no change. **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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