--- title: It's kind for a child to want to help, but sorting out money problem… — The electric meter, the food bank and «we can't… · tree and pragmatics description: It's kind for a child to want to help, but sorting out money problems is a grown-up's job. Who acts: fault, sorting. 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 dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev --- [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/41/) [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/) / 41 # The electric meter, the food bank and «we can't afford it», sentence 41 It's kind for a child to want to help, but sorting out money problems is a grown-up's job. **Who acts:** fault, sorting · **What happens:** be, want, help, sort out, grow · **To what, where:** money problems, job 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 (fault, sorting), 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:41 # text = It's kind for a child to want to help, but sorting out money problems is a grown-up's job. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 kind kind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 4 for for ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 want want VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 acl _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 xcomp _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct 12 but but CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 13 sorting sort VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 23 csubj _ _ 14 out out ADP RP _ 13 compound:prt _ _ 15 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 problems problem NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 17 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 19 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 amod _ _ 20 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 19 punct _ _ 21 up up NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod:poss _ _ 22 's 's PART POS _ 21 case _ _ 23 job job NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 24 . . 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 | **is** | present | fault | | | | | for a child; kind *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **want** | to-infinitive | fault *not said here* | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 3 | **help** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | fault *not said here* | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **sort out** | gerund | | money problems | | | | | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent problem=Theme | | 5 | **grow** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **is a** | present | sorting | a grown up's job | | | | | 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:41`. **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): 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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