--- title: Lots of good, hard-working families go through tight months: a job e… — When money is tight: "we can't afford it" · tree and pragmatics description: Lots of good, hard-working families go through tight months: a job ends, a bill jumps, someone gets ill; food banks, free school meals and second-hand shops exist exactly for times like that, and there is no shame in using them. Who acts: Lots, job, bill, someone. 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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 (Lots, job, bill, someone), 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:2 # text = Lots of good, hard-working families go through tight months: a job ends, a bill jumps, someone gets ill; food banks, free school meals and second-hand shops exist exactly for times like that, and there is no shame in using them. # 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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Lots lot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 3 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:amod 6 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 5 punct _ _ 7 working work VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 amod _ _ 8 families family NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:nsubj 9 go go VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 through through ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 11 tight tight ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 months month NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 13 : : PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 job job NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 ends end VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 acl:relcl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 bill bill NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 jumps jump VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:advcl:relcl 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 23 nsubj _ _ 23 gets get VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 ccomp _ _ 24 ill ill ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 xcomp _ _ 25 ; ; PUNCT : _ 27 punct _ _ 26 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 banks bank NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 nsubj _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 free free ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 compound _ _ 31 meals meal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 conj _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 33 second second ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 35 amod _ _ 34 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 33 punct _ _ 35 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 compound _ _ 36 shops shop NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 conj _ _ 37 exist exist VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 parataxis _ _ 38 exactly exactly ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 39 for for ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 obl _ _ 41 like like ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 40 nmod _ _ 43 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 44 and and CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 45 there there PRON EX _ 46 expl _ _ 46 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:conj 47 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 48 det _ _ 48 shame shame NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 nsubj _ _ 49 in in SCONJ IN _ 50 mark _ _ 50 using use VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 48 acl _ _ 51 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 50 obj _ _ 52 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **work** | gerund | | | | | | | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **go through** | present | Lots of good working families | | | | month | through *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **end** | present | a job | tight months *not said here* | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality month=Eventuality | | 4 | **jump** | present | a bill | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **get** | present | someone | | | | | ill *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 6 | **exist** | present | food banks and school meals and hand shops | | | | time | exactly *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **be** | present | no shame | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **use** | gerund | no shame *not said here* | bills *= bill* | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | 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:money:023-when-money-is-tight.lesson:2`. **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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×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/). - ← previous: [When money is tight: "we can't afford…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/23-when-money-is-tight/1/) - next →: [When money is tight: "we can't afford…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/23-when-money-is-tight/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/23-when-money-is-tight/)