A day at a grown-up's job, sentence 9

A meeting is when people at work gather, in a room or on a video call, to talk through plans and decide things; many go on too long and leave less time for the real work.

Who acts: meeting, people, many · What happens: be, gather, talk, decide, go on, leave · To what, where: room, plans, things

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 (meeting, people, many), 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 meeting	det
2	meeting	meeting	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 is	nsubj
3	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 gather	advmod
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 gather	nsubj
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 gather	case
7	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 people	nmod
8	gather	gather	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 is	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 room	punct
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 room	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 room	det
12	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gather	obl
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 call	cc
14	on	on	ADP	_	17 call	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 call	det
16	video	video	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 call	compound
17	call	call	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 room	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 talk	punct
19	to	to	PART	_	20 talk	mark
20	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 gather	advcl
21	through	through	ADP	_	22 plans	case
22	plans	plan	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 talk	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 decide	cc
24	decide	decide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 talk	conj
25	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 decide	obj
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 go	punct
27	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 go	nsubj
28	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 talk	advcl
29	on	on	ADV	_	31 long	advmod
30	too	too	ADV	_	31 long	advmod
31	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	28 go	advmod
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 leave	cc
33	leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 go	conj
34	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	35 time	amod
35	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 leave	obj
36	for	for	ADP	_	39 work	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 work	det
38	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 work	amod
39	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 leave	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 is	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	present	a meeting					tree rules
2	gather	present	people work		a room or a video call			vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent
3	talk	to-infinitive	people work not said here		plans			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	decide	infinitive	people work not said here	things				vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent thing=Topic
5	go on	present	many				long property	vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	leave	present	many not said here			time	for the real work	vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent for work=Recipient

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:9.

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): R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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