A day at a grown-up's job, sentence 5

A boss is the person whose job is to decide what work needs doing and check that it gets done; most bosses have bosses of their own.

Who acts: boss, job, work, most bosses · What happens: be, need, do, check, have · To what, where: person, work, bosses · 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, job, work, most bosses), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 boss	det
2	boss	boss	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 person	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 person	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 person	det
5	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	7 job	nmod:poss
7	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 decide	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 decide	cop
9	to	to	PART	_	10 decide	mark
10	decide	decide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 person	acl:relcl
11	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	12 work	det
12	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 needs	nsubj
13	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 decide	ccomp
14	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 needs	xcomp
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 check	cc
16	check	check	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 decide	conj
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 done	mark
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 done	nsubj:pass
19	gets	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 done	aux:pass
20	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 check	ccomp
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 have	punct
22	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	23 bosses	amod
23	bosses	boss	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 have	nsubj
24	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 person	parataxis
25	bosses	boss	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 have	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 own	case
27	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 own	nmod:poss
28	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 bosses	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 person	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a boss	the person		tree rules
2	is	present	job		decide property	tree rules
3	need	present	what work			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	do not said to happen	gerund	what work not said here			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	check	infinitive	job not said here			tree rules
6	do	present · passive		work		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
7	have	present	most bosses	bosses of boss's own		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boss=Patient

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:5.

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): R2-punct-next ×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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