A day at a grown-up's job, sentence 2

Picture a kitchen in Leeds at seven o'clock: Mum is answering an email with one hand and stirring the pasta with the other, sighing about "another meeting that could have been an email", while Dad comes in late because the trains were cancelled again.

Who acts: you, Mum, meeting, Dad · What happens: picture, answer, stir, sigh, be, come in · To what, where: kitchen, Leeds, email, pasta, trains · 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 (you, Mum, meeting, Dad), 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	Picture	picture	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 kitchen	det
3	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Picture	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 Leeds	case
5	Leeds	Leeds	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Picture	obl
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 o'clock	case
7	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 o'clock	nummod
8	o'clock	o'clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Picture	obl
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 Picture	punct
10	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 answering	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 answering	aux
12	answering	answer	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Picture	parataxis
13	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 email	det
14	email	email	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 answering	obj
15	with	with	ADP	_	17 hand	case
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 hand	nummod
17	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 answering	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 stirring	cc
19	stirring	stir	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 answering	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 pasta	det
21	pasta	pasta	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 stirring	obj
22	with	with	ADP	_	24 other	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 other	det
24	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 stirring	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 sighing	punct
26	sighing	sigh	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 answering	conj
27	about	about	ADP	_	30 meeting	case
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	30 meeting	punct
29	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	30 meeting	det
30	meeting	meeting	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 sighing	obl
31	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 email	nsubj
32	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 email	aux
33	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	36 email	aux
34	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	36 email	cop
35	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 email	det
36	email	email	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 meeting	acl:relcl
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	36 email	punct
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 comes	punct
39	while	while	SCONJ	_	41 comes	mark
40	Dad	Dad	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 comes	nsubj
41	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 answering	advcl
42	in	in	ADV	_	41 comes	advmod
43	late	late	ADV	Degree=Pos	41 comes	advmod
44	because	because	SCONJ	_	48 cancelled	mark
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 trains	det
46	trains	train	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 cancelled	nsubj:pass
47	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 cancelled	aux:pass
48	cancelled	cancel	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	41 comes	advcl
49	again	again	ADV	_	48 cancelled	advmod
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Picture	punct

Pragmatics

form: command
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed form=imp, voice=narrator

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	picture	imperative	you not said here	a kitchen	Leeds		at seven o'clock	vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent kitchen=Theme
2	answer speech: assert	present · progressive	Mum	a email			with one hand	vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent email=Eventuality
3	stir	gerund	Mum not said here	the pasta			with the other	vn shake-22.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent pasta=Patient with other=Co-Patient
4	sigh	gerund	Mum not said here				about another meeting	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about meeting=Topic
5	is a in a quote	could · perfect	another meeting	a email				tree rules
6	come in	present	Dad				late property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	cancel	past · passive		the trains		again		tree rules

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:2.

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 ×2, 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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