--- title: Money worries are stress about paying for things; they are grown-ups… — When money is tight: "we can't afford it" · tree and pragmatics description: Money worries are stress about paying for things; they are grown-ups' job to sort, and children are never to blame. Who acts: Money worries, stress, children, ups. 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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 (Money worries, stress, children, ups), 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:7 # text = Money worries are stress about paying for things; they are grown-ups' job to sort, and children are never to blame. # 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, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 worries worry NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:compound 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 stress stress NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 about about SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 6 paying pay VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 acl _ _ 7 for for ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 9 ; ; PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 11 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux:pass _ _ 12 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 acl:relcl _ _ 13 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 14 punct _ _ 14 ups up NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nmod:poss _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:obj 15 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ _ 16 job job NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 sort sort VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 acl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21:punct 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 21 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 22 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 23 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 25 advmod _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 25 blame blame VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=25:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Money worries | stress | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **pay** | gerund | stress *not said here* | | | | | for things | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for thing=Theme | | 3 | **grow** | present · passive | | worries *= worry* | | | | | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP PP»: subject=Beneficiary job=Product | | 4 | **sort** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **not** **is** | present | children | | | | | blame *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **job** | | ups | | | | | | nom job «act intransitive»: poss=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:7`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×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…, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/23-when-money-is-tight/6/) - next →: [When money is tight: "we can't afford…, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/23-when-money-is-tight/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/23-when-money-is-tight/)