When things break: boilers, plumbers and paint, sentence 11
Damp is when walls get wet inside and grow black mould; in a rented home the landlord is supposed to fix it, and some are slow to do so.
Who acts: Damp, some · What happens: be, grow, rent, suppose, fix, do · To what, where: black mould, landlord, rented home
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 (Damp, some), 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 | Damp | damp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 get | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 get | cop |
| 3 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 get | advmod |
| 4 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 get | nsubj |
| 5 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | wet | wet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 get | xcomp |
| 7 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 5 get | advmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 grow | cc |
| 9 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 get | conj |
| 10 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 mould | amod |
| 11 | mould | mould | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 grow | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 supposed | punct |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 home | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 home | det |
| 15 | rented | rent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 home | amod |
| 16 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 supposed | obl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 landlord | det |
| 18 | landlord | landlord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 supposed | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 supposed | aux:pass |
| 20 | supposed | suppose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 grow | advcl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 fix | mark |
| 22 | fix | fix | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 supposed | xcomp |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 fix | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 slow | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 slow | cc |
| 26 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 28 slow | nsubj |
| 27 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 slow | cop |
| 28 | slow | slow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 supposed | conj |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 do | mark |
| 30 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 slow | xcomp |
| 31 | so | so | ADV | _ | 30 do | advmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 get | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Damp | get, inside, wet property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | grow | present | Damp not said here | black mould | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mould=Theme | ||||
| 3 | rent | participle | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | suppose | present · passive | the landlord | a rented home | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 5 | fix | to-infinitive | landlord | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||||
| 6 | is | present | some | slow property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | do | to-infinitive | some not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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:11.
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): 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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