When things break: boilers, plumbers and paint, sentence 12
Tenants who cannot get a repair done may complain more than once or ask the council for help.
Who acts: Tenants, repair · What happens: not get, do, complain, ask · To what, where: repair, council
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 (Tenants, repair), 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 | Tenants | tenant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 complain | nsubj |
| 2 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 get | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 get | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 get | advmod |
| 5 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Tenants | acl:relcl |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 repair | det |
| 7 | repair | repair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 get | obj |
| 8 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 get | xcomp |
| 9 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 complain | aux |
| 10 | complain | complain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 10 complain | advmod |
| 12 | than | than | ADP | _ | 13 once | case |
| 13 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 10 complain | obl |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 ask | cc |
| 15 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 complain | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 council | det |
| 17 | council | council | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 ask | obj |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 help | case |
| 19 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 ask | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 complain | 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 | not get | can | Tenants | a repair | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do | participle | a repair not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | complain speech: other | may | Tenants | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | infinitive | Tenants not said here | the council | for help | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent council=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:011-when-things-break.lesson:12.
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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