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title: Not having much money is nothing to be ashamed of; many families are… — Laughed at: photos, scores, nicknames and the sp… · tree and pragmatics
description: Not having much money is nothing to be ashamed of; many families are in the same boat ("skint" and "hard up" mean short of money), and a teacher should not share family money matters in front of a class. Who acts: having, many families, teacher. A sentence of the lesson «Laughed at: photos, scores, 
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# Laughed at: photos, scores, nicknames and the spotlight, sentence 13

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Not having much money is nothing to be ashamed of; many families are in the same boat ("skint" and "hard up" mean short of money), and a teacher should not share family money matters in front of a class.

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**Who acts:** having, many families, teacher · **What happens:** not have, be, asham, hard up, mean, not share · **To what, where:** much money, nothing, same boat, money matters, front · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Laughed at: photos, scores, nicknames and the spotlight» of the reflection course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (having, many families, teacher), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:reflection:010-laughed-at-photos-scores-nicknames-and-the-spotlight.lesson:13
# text = Not having much money is nothing to be ashamed of; many families are in the same boat ("skint" and "hard up" mean short of money), and a teacher should not share family money matters in front of a class.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = reflection
# lesson = 010-laughed-at-photos-scores-nicknames-and-the-spotlight.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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	csubj	_	_
3	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	ashamed	asham	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	obl	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
12	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
14	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	_
19	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	21	punct	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	_
21	skint	skint	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	_
25	hard	hard	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	parataxis	_	_
26	up	up	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	_
27	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	28	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=28:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_
28	mean	mean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	conj	_	_
29	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	xcomp	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
32	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	28	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=25:punct
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
37	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
38	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	39	advmod	_	_
39	share	share	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
40	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	_
41	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	compound	_	_
42	matters	matter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	obj	_	_
43	in	in	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
45	of	of	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	class	class	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nmod	_	_
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **have** | gerund |  | much money |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient |
| 2 | **is a** | present | having | nothing |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **asham** | to-infinitive · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | present | many families |  |  | the same boat |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **hard up** *in a quote* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **mean** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | short *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **not** **share** | should | a teacher | money matters |  | front of a class |  |  | tree rules |

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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.

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**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:reflection:010-laughed-at-photos-scores-nicknames-and-the-spotlight.lesson:13`.

**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, R8-pos-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/).

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