When things break: boilers, plumbers and paint, sentence 15

In houses joined together, sound travels through the walls, so grown-ups first knock and ask politely and only later complain to the landlord or the council.

Who acts: sound, grown ups · What happens: join, travel, knock, ask, complain · To what, where: houses, landlord

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 (sound, grown ups), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 houses	case
2	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 travels	obl
3	joined	join	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 houses	acl
4	together	together	ADV	_	3 joined	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 travels	punct
6	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 travels	nsubj
7	travels	travel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	through	through	ADP	_	10 walls	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 walls	det
10	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 travels	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 travels	punct
12	so	so	CCONJ	_	17 knock	cc
13	grown	grow	NOUN	_	15 ups	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 ups	punct
15	ups	up	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 knock	nsubj
16	first	first	ADV	_	17 knock	advmod
17	knock	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 travels	conj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 ask	cc
19	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 knock	conj
20	politely	politely	ADV	_	19 ask	advmod
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 complain	cc
22	only	only	ADV	_	23 later	advmod
23	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	24 complain	advmod
24	complain	complain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 knock	conj
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 landlord	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 landlord	det
27	landlord	landlord	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 complain	obl
28	or	or	CCONJ	_	30 council	cc
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 council	det
30	council	council	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 landlord	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 travels	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	join	participle		houses not said here			together property	vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	travel	present	sound			houses	through the walls	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Trajectory
3	knock	present	grown ups				first property	vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
4	ask speech: ask	infinitive	grown ups not said here				politely property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	complain speech: other	infinitive	grown ups not said here		the landlord or the council		late property	vn complain-37.8 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to landlord=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:15.

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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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