--- title: Kindness to people who are struggling, like buying a sandwich for a… — Lending, sharing, charity and tipping · tree and pragmatics description: Kindness to people who are struggling, like buying a sandwich for a homeless man, treats people with dignity; £3 a week for a year is 52 × £3 = £156. Who acts: people, Kindness. 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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 (people, Kindness), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:money:039-lending-sharing-charity-and-tipping.lesson:14 # text = Kindness to people who are struggling, like buying a sandwich for a homeless man, treats people with dignity; £3 a week for a year is 52 × £3 = £156. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = money # lesson = 039-lending-sharing-charity-and-tipping.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): no change 1 Kindness kindness NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 2 to to ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 nmod _ _ 4 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 6 nsubj _ _ 5 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 6 struggling struggle VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 acl:relcl _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 like like SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 9 buying buy VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 conj _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 sandwich sandwich NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 for for ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 homeless homeless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 treats treat VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 18 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 19 with with ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 dignity dignity NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 22 £ £ SYM $ _ 25 compound _ _ 23 3 3 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 22 nummod _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 week week NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 26 for for ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 29 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 30 52 52 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 31 nummod _ _ 31 × × SYM SYM Number=Sing 17 parataxis _ _ 32 £ £ SYM $ _ 31 acl:relcl _ _ 33 3 3 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 32 nummod _ _ 34 = = SYM SYM _ 35 case _ _ 35 £ £ SYM $ _ 32 nmod _ _ 36 156 156 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 35 nummod _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 31 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **struggle** | present · progressive | people | | | | | | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **buy** | gerund | people *not said here* | a sandwich | | | | for a homeless man | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent sandwich=Theme for man=Beneficiary | | 3 | **treat** | present | Kindness to people | | people | | | with dignity | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: agent=Agent people=Recipient with dignity=Theme | 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:039-lending-sharing-charity-and-tipping.lesson:14`. **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): no change. **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: [Lending, sharing, charity and tipping, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/39-lending-sharing-charity-and-tipping/13/) - next →: [Lending, sharing, charity and tipping, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/39-lending-sharing-charity-and-tipping/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/39-lending-sharing-charity-and-tipping/)