--- title: Benefits are money from the government for people who can't work, do… — Hiding it from friends: being skint at school · tree and pragmatics description: Benefits are money from the government for people who can't work, don't earn enough, or care for someone full-time; most people on benefits are not lazy. Who acts: Benefits, people, most people. 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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 (Benefits, people, most people), 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:37 # text = Benefits are money from the government for people who can't work, don't earn enough, or care for someone full-time; most people on benefits are not lazy. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Benefits benefit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 4 from from ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 government government NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 7 for for ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nmod _ _ 9 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 12 nsubj _ _ 10 ca can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 11 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 12 advmod _ _ 12 work work VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 acl:relcl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:aux|HaikuPos=AUX:VB:VerbForm=Inf 15 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 16 advmod _ _ 16 earn earn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 conj _ _ 17 enough enough ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 or or CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 care care VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 21 for for ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 20 obl _ _ 23 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 24 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 23 punct _ _ 25 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 26 ; ; PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=3:punct 27 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 28 amod _ _ 28 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nsubj _ _ 29 on on ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 benefits benefit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nmod _ _ 31 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 32 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 33 advmod _ _ 33 lazy lazy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 34 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Benefits | money | | the government | | for people | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **work** | can | people | | | | | | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **not** **earn** | present · do-support | people *not said here* | | | | | enough *property* | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **care** | present | people *not said here* | | | | time | for someone | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for someone=Theme | | 5 | **not** **is** | present | most people on benefits | | | | | lazy *property* | 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:489-hiding-it-from-friends-being-skint-at-school.lesson:37`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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