--- title: Children are never to blame for money worries; a hug, a bit of help… — When money is tight: "we can't afford it" · tree and pragmatics description: Children are never to blame for money worries; a hug, a bit of help and not asking for extras can mean a lot, and a trusted adult is there to talk to if worry gets heavy. Who acts: Children, help, hug, trusted adult. 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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 (Children, help, hug, trusted adult), 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:3 # text = Children are never to blame for money worries; a hug, a bit of help and not asking for extras can mean a lot, and a trusted adult is there to talk to if worry gets heavy. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:aux 3 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 blame blame VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 for for ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 worries worry NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 9 ; ; PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 hug hug NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:conj 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 parataxis _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 help help NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 19 advmod _ _ 19 asking ask VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 16 acl _ _ 20 for for SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 21 extras extra NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:nsubj 22 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 mean mean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 ccomp _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 lot lot NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 trusted trust VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 30 amod _ _ 30 adult adult NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 31 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 32 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 31 expl _ _ 33 to to PART TO _ 34 mark _ _ 34 talk talk VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 advcl _ _ 35 to to ADP IN _ 34 obl _ _ 36 if if SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 37 worry worry NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 38 gets get VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 advcl _ _ 39 heavy heavy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 xcomp _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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 | **not** **is** | present | Children | | | | | for money worries; blame *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | help *not said here* | extras | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **mean** | can | a hug | a lot | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Topic | | 4 | **trust** | participle | | | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **be** | present | a trusted adult | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **talk** | to-infinitive | a trusted adult *not said here* | | | | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **get** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | worry | | | | | heavy *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | 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:3`. **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, 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…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/23-when-money-is-tight/2/) - next →: [When money is tight: "we can't afford…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/23-when-money-is-tight/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/23-when-money-is-tight/)