--- title: In Belfast, a girl says, «My dad says people on benefits are lazy.»… — Hiding it from friends: being skint at school · tree and pragmatics description: In Belfast, a girl says, «My dad says people on benefits are lazy.» Megan's mum gets benefits, money from the government, because she looks after Megan's disabled brother all day. Who acts: girl, dad, people, mum. 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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 (girl, dad, people, mum), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:489-hiding-it-from-friends-being-skint-at-school.lesson:16 # text = In Belfast, a girl says, «My dad says people on benefits are lazy.» Megan's mum gets benefits, money from the government, because she looks after Megan's disabled brother all day. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 489-hiding-it-from-friends-being-skint-at-school.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 ×2 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 Belfast belfast PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 8 « « PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ _ 9 My my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 dad dad NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 12 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 13 on on ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 benefits benefit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nmod _ _ 15 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 16 lazy lazy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 ccomp _ _ 17 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ 18 » » PUNCT '' _ 22 punct _ _ 19 Megan Megan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 nmod:poss _ _ 20 's 's PART POS _ 19 case _ _ 21 mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 22 gets get VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 23 benefits benefit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 conj _ _ 26 from from ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 government government NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 because because SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 31 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 looks look VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 advcl _ _ 33 after after ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 34 Megan Megan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 nmod:poss _ _ 35 's 's PART POS _ 34 case _ _ 36 disabled disable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 38 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 39 det _ _ 39 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl:unmarked _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a girl | | | Belfast | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | My dad | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | people on benefits | | | | | lazy *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **get** | present | Megan's mum | benefits and money | | the government | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent benefit=Theme from government=Source | | 5 | **look** | present | mum | | | | after Megan's disabled brother; day | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | 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:489-hiding-it-from-friends-being-skint-at-school.lesson:16`. **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 ×2. **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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