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title: Picture Leo asking for a £200 bike when his family has £50 spare thi… — When money is tight: "we can't afford it" · tree and pragmatics
description: Picture Leo asking for a £200 bike when his family has £50 spare this month: they are £150 short, so the answer is "not now", even though Mum would love to say yes. Who acts: you, family, things, answer. A sentence of the lesson «When money is tight: "we can't afford it"» of the money course of Mova
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# When money is tight: "we can't afford it", sentence 1

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Picture Leo asking for a £200 bike when his family has £50 spare this month: they are £150 short, so the answer is "not now", even though Mum would love to say yes.

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**Who acts:** you, family, things, answer, Mum, yes · **What happens:** picture, ask, have, spare, be, not be · **To what, where:** Leo · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «When money is tight: "we can't afford it"» of the money 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 (you, family, things, answer), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:money:023-when-money-is-tight.lesson:1
# text = Picture Leo asking for a £200 bike when his family has £50 spare this month: they are £150 short, so the answer is "not now", even though Mum would love to say yes.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = money
# lesson = 023-when-money-is-tight.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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Picture	picture	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	Leo	Leo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	asking	ask	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	xcomp	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	£	£	SYM	$	_	8	compound	_	_
7	200	200	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
8	bike	bike	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	12	mark	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
13	£	£	SYM	$	_	12	obj	_	_
14	50	50	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
15	spare	spare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
16	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	det	_	_
17	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl:unmarked	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:obl:unmarked
18	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
20	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
21	£	£	SYM	$	_	23	obl:unmarked	_	_
22	150	150	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
23	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	parataxis	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
25	so	so	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
28	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
29	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	31	punct	_	_
30	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	31	advmod	_	_
31	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	1	parataxis	_	_
32	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	31	punct	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
34	even	even	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
35	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
36	Mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
37	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
38	love	love	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	advcl	_	_
39	to	to	PART	TO	_	40	mark	_	_
40	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	xcomp	_	_
41	yes	yes	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	_
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: other
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=imp, act=other

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **picture** | imperative | you *not said here* | Leo |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent leo=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for a £ bike | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **have** | present | Leo's family |  |  |  | month |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **spare** | infinitive | Leo's family *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** | present | things *= thing* |  |  |  |  | short *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | present | the answer |  |  |  |  | now *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **love** | would | Mum |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 8 | **say** *speech: assert* *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | yes |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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.

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**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:money:023-when-money-is-tight.lesson:1`.

**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): R5-strong ×1, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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