When things break: boilers, plumbers and paint, sentence 10
Big building jobs often take longer and cost more than planned.
Who acts: building jobs · What happens: take, cost, plan · To what, where: more
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 (building jobs), 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 | Big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 building | amod |
| 2 | building | building | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 jobs | compound |
| 3 | jobs | job | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 take | nsubj |
| 4 | often | often | ADV | _ | 5 take | advmod |
| 5 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 take | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 cost | cc |
| 8 | cost | cost | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 take | conj |
| 9 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 cost | obj |
| 10 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 11 planned | mark |
| 11 | planned | plan | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 more | advcl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 take | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | present | building jobs | long, often property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | cost | present | building jobs not said here | more | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme more=Value | ||||
| 3 | plan | participle | building jobs not said here | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: 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:10.
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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