A day at a grown-up's job, sentence 6
Grown-ups follow a boss's requests because that is part of the deal for being paid, and the boss's opinion affects pay rises and promotion.
Who acts: Grown ups, that, opinion, boss · What happens: follow, be, pay, affect, request, opine · To what, where: requests, part, deal, pay rises
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 (Grown ups, that, opinion, boss), 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 | Grown | grow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ups | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 ups | punct |
| 3 | ups | grown-up | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 follow | nsubj |
| 4 | follow | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 boss | det |
| 6 | boss | boss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 requests | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 boss | case |
| 8 | requests | request | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 follow | obj |
| 9 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 12 part | mark |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 part | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 part | cop |
| 12 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 follow | advcl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 deal | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 deal | det |
| 15 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 part | nmod |
| 16 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 18 paid | mark |
| 17 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 paid | aux:pass |
| 18 | paid | pay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 deal | acl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 follow | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 pay | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 boss | det |
| 22 | boss | boss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 opinion | nmod:poss |
| 23 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 22 boss | case |
| 24 | opinion | opinion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 affects | nsubj |
| 25 | affects | affect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 follow | conj |
| 26 | pay | pay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 rises | compound |
| 27 | rises | rise | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 affects | obj |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 promotion | cc |
| 29 | promotion | promotion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 rises | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 follow | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | present | Grown ups | a boss's requests | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent request=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | that | part | of the deal | tree rules | |||
| 3 | pay | gerund · passive | the deal not said here | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP» | |||||
| 4 | affect | present | the boss's opinion | pay rises and promotion | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus rise=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | request | a boss | nom request «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | opine | the boss | nom opinion «cognition transitive»: 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:6.
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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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