A day at a grown-up's job, sentence 1

At work there is usually a boss who decides what needs doing, colleagues who do it alongside them, meetings to agree plans, and emails that keep arriving even in the evening.

Who acts: boss, colleagues, emails · What happens: be, decide, do, agree, keep, arrive · To what, where: work, plans · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «A day at a grown-up's job» of the adult life 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 (boss, colleagues, emails), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	2 work	case
2	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 is	obl
3	there	there	PRON	_	4 is	expl
4	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	usually	usually	ADV	_	4 is	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 boss	det
7	boss	boss	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 is	nsubj
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 decides	nsubj
9	decides	decide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 boss	acl:relcl
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 doing	obj
11	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 doing	aux
12	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 decides	ccomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 colleagues	punct
14	colleagues	colleague	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 boss	conj
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 do	nsubj
16	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 colleagues	acl:relcl
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 do	obj
18	alongside	alongside	ADP	_	19 them	case
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 do	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 meetings	punct
21	meetings	meeting	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 boss	conj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 agree	mark
23	agree	agree	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 meetings	acl
24	plans	plan	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 agree	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 emails	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 emails	cc
27	emails	email	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 boss	conj
28	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 keep	nsubj
29	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 emails	acl:relcl
30	arriving	arrive	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	29 keep	xcomp
31	even	even	ADV	_	34 evening	advmod
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 evening	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 evening	det
34	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 arriving	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 is	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	does	present	a boss and colleagues and meetings and emails		work; there		usually property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at work=Location
2	decide	present	a boss and colleagues and meetings and emails					vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	do	present						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
4	do	present	colleagues	work			alongside boss	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
5	agree speech: agree	to-infinitive	a boss and colleagues and meetings and emails not said here	plans				vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent plan=Topic
6	keep	present	emails					tree rules
7	arrive	gerund	emails not said here			evening		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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, 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:adult-life:001-a-day-at-a-grown-ups-job.lesson:1.

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 ×5, R6-punct-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.

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