A day at a grown-up's job, sentence 3

None of that grumbling means your parents hate their jobs or are cross with you; it is how grown-ups let off steam after a long day.

Who acts: None, parents, it, ups · What happens: mean, hate, be, let off, job · To what, where: jobs, steam · 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 (None, parents, it, ups), 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	None	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	5 means	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 grumbling	case
3	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 grumbling	det
4	grumbling	grumble	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 None	nmod
5	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 parents	nmod:poss
7	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 hate	nsubj
8	hate	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 means	ccomp
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 jobs	nmod:poss
10	jobs	job	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 hate	obj
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 cross	cc
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 cross	cop
13	cross	cross	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 hate	conj
14	with	with	ADP	_	15 you	case
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 cross	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 grown	punct
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 grown	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 grown	cop
19	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	20 grown	advmod
20	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 means	conj
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 grown	punct
22	ups	up	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 let	nsubj
23	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 grown	ccomp
24	off	off	ADP	_	23 let	compound:prt
25	steam	steam	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 let	obj
26	after	after	ADP	_	29 day	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 day	det
28	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 day	amod
29	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 let	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 means	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	None				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	hate	present	your parents	parents's jobs			vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer job=Stimulus
3	is	present	your parents not said here			with you; cross property	tree rules
4	is	present	it			grow property	tree rules
5	let off	present	ups	steam	day		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent steam=Theme
6	job		parents = parent				nom job «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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:3.

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): no change. 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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