--- title: A food bank is a place that gives free food to people who need it; m… — When money is tight: "we can't afford it" · tree and pragmatics description: A food bank is a place that gives free food to people who need it; many families use one when money runs short, and it is nothing to be ashamed of. Who acts: food bank, place, people, many families. 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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 (food bank, place, people, many families), 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:9 # text = A food bank is a place that gives free food to people who need it; many families use one when money runs short, and it is nothing to be ashamed of. # 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 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 bank bank NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 8 nsubj _ _ 8 gives give VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ _ 9 free free ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 to to ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:nmod 13 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 14 nsubj _ _ 14 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 acl:relcl _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 families family NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 19 use use VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 20 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 19 obj _ _ 21 when when SCONJ WRB _ 23 mark _ _ 22 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 runs run VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 advcl _ _ 24 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 xcomp _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 28 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 29 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 8 parataxis _ _ 30 to to PART TO _ 32 mark _ _ 31 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 32 cop _ _ 32 ashamed ashamed ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 acl _ _ 33 of of ADP IN _ 32 obl _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 6 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 | **is a** | present | a food bank | a place | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **give** | present | a place | free food | people | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent food=Theme to people=Recipient | | 3 | **need** | present | people | food | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme | | 4 | **use** | present | many families | one | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient | | 5 | **run** | present | money | | | | | short *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **is a** | present | money | nothing | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **is** | to-infinitive | a place *not said here* | | | | | ashamed *property* | tree rules | 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:9`. **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…, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/23-when-money-is-tight/8/) - next →: [When money is tight: "we can't afford…, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/23-when-money-is-tight/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/23-when-money-is-tight/)