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title: Communities help each other: a family that receives a £40 hamper one… — When money is tight: "we can't afford it" · tree and pragmatics
description: Communities help each other: a family that receives a £40 hamper one year may give one the next. Who acts: Communities, family. A sentence of the lesson «When money is tight: "we can't afford it"» of the money course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# When money is tight: "we can't afford it", sentence 16

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Communities help each other: a family that receives a £40 hamper one year may give one the next.

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**Who acts:** Communities, family · **What happens:** help, receive, give · **To what, where:** each, £ hamper, one

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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 (Communities, family), 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:16
# text = Communities help each other: a family that receives a £40 hamper one year may give one the next.
# 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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Communities	community	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	help	help	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	2	obj	_	_
4	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	fixed	_	_
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	receives	receive	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	£	£	SYM	$	_	13	compound	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
12	40	40	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	flat	_	_
13	hamper	hamper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
14	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:nmod:unmarked
16	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
18	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	obj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:parataxis
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **help** | present | Communities | each |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **receive** | present | a family | a £ hamper |  |  | year |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hamper=Theme |
| 3 | **give** | may | a family *not said here* | one |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent one=Recipient next=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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**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 ×2, R8-pos-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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