When things break: boilers, plumbers and paint, sentence 0

A home is like a big machine with lots of parts: pipes, wires, a boiler, walls, a roof and bins that need emptying, and every part breaks or wears out sooner or later.

Who acts: home, bins, part · What happens: be, need, empty, break, wear out

This is a sentence of the lesson «When things break: boilers, plumbers and paint» 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 (home, bins, part), 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 home	det
2	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 machine	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 machine	cop
4	like	like	ADP	_	7 machine	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 machine	det
6	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 machine	amod
7	machine	machine	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 lots	case
9	lots	lot	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 machine	nmod
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 parts	case
11	parts	part	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 lots	nmod
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 pipes	punct
13	pipes	pipe	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 parts	appos
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 wires	punct
15	wires	wire	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 pipes	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 boiler	punct
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 boiler	det
18	boiler	boiler	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 pipes	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 walls	punct
20	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 pipes	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 roof	punct
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 roof	det
23	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 pipes	conj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 bins	cc
25	bins	bin	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 pipes	conj
26	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 need	nsubj
27	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 bins	acl:relcl
28	emptying	empty	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 need	xcomp
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 breaks	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 breaks	cc
31	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	32 part	det
32	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 breaks	nsubj
33	breaks	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 machine	conj
34	or	or	CCONJ	_	35 wears	cc
35	wears	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 breaks	conj
36	out	out	ADP	_	35 wears	compound:prt
37	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	35 wears	advmod
38	or	or	CCONJ	_	39 later	cc
39	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	37 sooner	conj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 machine	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present	a home	like a big machine; with lots of parts	tree rules
2	need	present	bins		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	empty not said to happen	gerund	bins not said here		vn clear-10.3-1 «NP.Source V»: agent=Source
4	break	present	every part		vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
5	wear out	present	every part not said here	soon property	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=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:011-when-things-break.lesson:0.

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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