When things break: boilers, plumbers and paint, sentence 1
Some jobs grown-ups do themselves, which is called DIY, and some need a trained person like a plumber or an electrician, who is busy and costs a lot.
Who acts: jobs, some, electrician · What happens: grow, do, call, need, train, be · To what, where: ups, trained person, lot · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (jobs, some, electrician), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 jobs | det |
| 2 | jobs | job | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 do | nsubj |
| 3 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 ups | amod |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 grown | punct |
| 5 | ups | up | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 do | nsubj |
| 6 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 6 do | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 called | punct |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 called | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 called | aux:pass |
| 11 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 do | advcl |
| 12 | DIY | diy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 called | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 need | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 need | cc |
| 15 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 need | nsubj |
| 16 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 do | conj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 person | det |
| 18 | trained | train | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 person | amod |
| 19 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 need | obj |
| 20 | like | like | ADP | _ | 22 plumber | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 plumber | det |
| 22 | plumber | plumber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 person | nmod |
| 23 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 25 electrician | cc |
| 24 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 electrician | det |
| 25 | electrician | electrician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 plumber | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 busy | punct |
| 27 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 busy | nsubj |
| 28 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 busy | cop |
| 29 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 electrician | acl:relcl |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 costs | cc |
| 31 | costs | cost | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 busy | conj |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 lot | det |
| 33 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 costs | obj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 do | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | do | present | some jobs | ups = up | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | call | present · passive | diy property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 4 | need | present | some | a trained person | like a plumber or a electrician | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot person=Theme | |||
| 5 | train | participle | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | is | present | a electrician | busy property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | cost | present | a electrician not said here | a lot | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme lot=Value |
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:1.
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): R5-strong ×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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