--- title: Making fun of someone's cheap trainers or free lunch is unkind and w… — When money is tight: "we can't afford it" · tree and pragmatics description: Making fun of someone's cheap trainers or free lunch is unkind and wrong; what matters is who a person is, not what they wear. Who acts: Making, person, worries. 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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 (Making, person, worries), 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:4 # text = Making fun of someone's cheap trainers or free lunch is unkind and wrong; what matters is who a person is, not what they wear. # 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 1 Making make VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 12 csubj _ _ 2 fun fun NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 4 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 7 nmod:poss _ _ 5 's 's PART POS _ 4 case _ _ 6 cheap cheap ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 trainers trainer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nmod _ _ 8 or or CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 free free ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 lunch lunch NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj 11 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 12 unkind unkind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 conj _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 19 nsubj _ _ 17 matters matter VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 acl:relcl _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 19 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 12 parataxis _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 22 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 24 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 25 advmod _ _ 25 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 19 nsubj _ _ 26 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 wear wear VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 acl:relcl _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: evaluate - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: changed act=evaluate | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | gerund | | fun of someone's cheap trainers or free lunch | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fun=Product | | 2 | **is** | present | Making | | | | | unkind *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **be** | | Making *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **matter** | present | | | | | | | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | | 5 | **is a** | present | | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **not** **is a** | present | a person | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **wear** | present | worries *= worry* | | | | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent | 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:4`. **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. **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…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/23-when-money-is-tight/3/) - next →: [When money is tight: "we can't afford…, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/23-when-money-is-tight/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/23-when-money-is-tight/)