--- title: In Toronto, Priyanka's mom has lost her job, so they go to a food ba… — The electric meter, the food bank and «we can't… · tree and pragmatics description: In Toronto, Priyanka's mom has lost her job, so they go to a food bank, a place that gives free food to families who need it. Who acts: mom, charities, place, families. 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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 (mom, charities, place, families), 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:5 # text = In Toronto, Priyanka's mom has lost her job, so they go to a food bank, a place that gives free food to families who need it. # 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 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 Toronto Toronto PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 Priyanka Priyanka PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod:poss _ _ 5 's 's PART POS _ 4 case _ _ 6 mom mom NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 7 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 8 lost lose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 9 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 job job NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 so so ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 13 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 go go VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj 15 to to ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 bank bank NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 appos _ _ 22 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 23 nsubj _ _ 23 gives give VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 acl:relcl _ _ 24 free free ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 to to ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 families family NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl _ _ 28 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 29 nsubj _ _ 29 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 acl:relcl _ _ 30 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obj _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lose** | present · perfect | Priyanka's mom | mom's job | | Toronto | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Eventuality | | 2 | **go** | present | charities *= charity* | | | a food bank | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to bank=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **give** | present | a place | free food | families | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent food=Theme to family=Recipient | | 4 | **need** | present | families | food | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme | | 5 | **job** | | mom | | | | | | nom job «act intransitive»: poss=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:5`. **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. 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