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title: Free school meals are lunches paid for by the government for familie… — When money is tight: "we can't afford it" · tree and pragmatics
description: Free school meals are lunches paid for by the government for families who need them; at about £2.50 a day, they save a family £12.50 every five-day school week. Who acts: Free school meals, families, meals. A sentence of the lesson «When money is tight: "we can't afford it"» of the money course of M
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# When money is tight: "we can't afford it", sentence 10

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Free school meals are lunches paid for by the government for families who need them; at about £2.50 a day, they save a family £12.50 every five-day school week.

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**Who acts:** Free school meals, families, meals · **What happens:** be, pay for, need, save · **To what, where:** lunches, meals, family

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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 (Free school meals, families, meals), 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:10
# text = Free school meals are lunches paid for by the government for families who need them; at about £2.50 a day, they save a family £12.50 every five-day school week.
# 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, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	meals	meal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	lunches	lunch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	paid	pay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:agent	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
13	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	about	about	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	£	£	SYM	$	_	25	obl	_	_
20	2.50	2.50	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Frac	19	nummod	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:obl:unmarked
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	save	save	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	iobj	_	_
28	£	£	SYM	$	_	25	obj	_	_
29	12.50	12.50	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Frac	28	flat	_	_
30	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	35	det	_	_
31	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	33	nummod	_	_
32	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	31	punct	_	_
33	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=34:compound
34	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl:unmarked	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Free school meals | lunches |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **pay for** | participle |  | lunches *not said here* |  |  |  | for families | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for family=Theme |
| 3 | **need** | present | families | meals *= meal* |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot they=Theme |
| 4 | **save** | present | meals *= meal* |  | a family |  | week |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent family=Beneficiary £=Theme |

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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:10`.

**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, 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.

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

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