--- title: Money can buy help, but it can't buy time with Dad, and grown-ups do… — Rich families: the big house, the nanny and neve… · tree and pragmatics description: Money can buy help, but it can't buy time with Dad, and grown-ups don't always notice that, so Lottie can tell him: «I miss you.» Who acts: Money, grown ups, Lottie. 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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 (Money, grown ups, Lottie), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:491-rich-families-the-big-house-the-nanny-and-never-seeing-dad.lesson:5 # text = Money can buy help, but it can't buy time with Dad, and grown-ups don't always notice that, so Lottie can tell him: «I miss you.» # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 491-rich-families-the-big-house-the-nanny-and-never-seeing-dad.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 Money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 buy buy VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 help help NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 6 but but CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 7 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 8 ca can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 9 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 10 advmod _ _ 10 buy buy VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 11 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 12 with with ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 Dad Dad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 16 grown grown NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 17 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 16 punct _ _ 18 ups up NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 19 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 20 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 22 advmod _ _ 21 always always ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 notice notice VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 conj _ _ 23 that that PRON DT PronType=Dem 22 obj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 25 so so ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 26 Lottie Lottie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 27 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 conj _ _ 29 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 iobj _ _ 30 : : PUNCT : _ 33 punct _ _ 31 « « PUNCT `` _ 33 punct _ _ 32 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 miss miss VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:parataxis 34 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 33 obj _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 33 punct _ _ 36 » » PUNCT '' _ 33 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **buy** | can | Money | help | | | | | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent help=Theme | | 2 | **not** **buy** | can | Money | | | | time | with Dad | vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **not** **notice** | present · do-support | grown ups | that | | | | always *property* | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus | | 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | can | Lottie | | dad | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | | 5 | **miss** *in a quote* | present | Lottie | dad | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=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:491-rich-families-the-big-house-the-nanny-and-never-seeing-dad.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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