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title: Many families struggle to afford enough food; it is nothing to be as… — Hard things at home: broken promises, silence, m… · tree and pragmatics
description: Many families struggle to afford enough food; it is nothing to be ashamed of, and schools (breakfast clubs, free school meals) and food banks help. Who acts: Many families, food, schools. A sentence of the lesson «Hard things at home: broken promises, silence, money and illness» of the reflection co
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# Hard things at home: broken promises, silence, money and illness, sentence 13

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Many families struggle to afford enough food; it is nothing to be ashamed of, and schools (breakfast clubs, free school meals) and food banks help.

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**Who acts:** Many families, food, schools · **What happens:** struggle, afford, be, asham, help · **To what, where:** enough food, nothing

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Hard things at home: broken promises, silence, money and illness» 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 (Many families, food, schools), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:reflection:013-hard-things-at-home-broken-promises-silence-money-and-illness.lesson:13
# text = Many families struggle to afford enough food; it is nothing to be ashamed of, and schools (breakfast clubs, free school meals) and food banks help.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = reflection
# lesson = 013-hard-things-at-home-broken-promises-silence-money-and-illness.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	struggle	struggle	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	afford	afford	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	enough	enough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	3	parataxis	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	aux:pass	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:cop
14	ashamed	asham	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:acl|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
18	schools	school	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj	_	_
19	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	21	punct	_	_
20	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	clubs	club	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:parataxis
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	meals	meal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	_
26	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	21	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	banks	bank	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
30	help	help	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **struggle** | present | Many families |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **afford** | to-infinitive | Many families *not said here* | enough food |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present | food | nothing |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **asham** | to-infinitive · passive | Many families *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **help** | present | schools and food banks |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |

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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:013-hard-things-at-home-broken-promises-silence-money-and-illness.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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