A day at a grown-up's job, sentence 10

Phones let work follow people home, so messages arrive in the evening; many families make a no-phones-at-meals rule for that reason.

Who acts: Phones, work, messages, many families · What happens: let, follow, arrive, make · To what, where: work, people, phones rule

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 (Phones, work, messages, many families), 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	Phones	phone	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 let	nsubj
2	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 let	obj
4	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 let	xcomp
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 follow	obj
6	home	home	ADV	_	4 follow	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 arrive	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	10 arrive	advmod
9	messages	message	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 arrive	nsubj
10	arrive	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 follow	advcl
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 evening	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 evening	det
13	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 arrive	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 make	punct
15	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 families	amod
16	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 make	nsubj
17	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 arrive	conj
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 rule	det
19	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	21 phones	det
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 no	punct
21	phones	phone	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 rule	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 meals	punct
23	at	at	ADP	_	25 meals	case
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 at	punct
25	meals	meal	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 phones	nmod
26	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 make	obj
27	for	for	ADP	_	29 reason	case
28	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	29 reason	det
29	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 make	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 let	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	let	present	Phones	work			tree rules
2	follow	infinitive	work not said here	people		home property	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme
3	arrive	present	messages		evening		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	make	present	many families	a phones rule		for that reason	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent rule=Product for reason=Asset

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:10.

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, R7-rel-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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