When things break: boilers, plumbers and paint, sentence 2

In a rented home the landlord owns the house and must fix the big things, but tenants often have to ask again and again before anything happens.

Who acts: landlord, tenants, anything · What happens: rent, own, fix, have, ask, happen · To what, where: house, rented home, big things

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 (landlord, tenants, anything), 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	_	4 home	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 home	det
3	rented	rent	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 home	amod
4	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 owns	obl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 landlord	det
6	landlord	landlord	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 owns	nsubj
7	owns	own	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 house	det
9	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 owns	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 fix	cc
11	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 fix	aux
12	fix	fix	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 owns	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 things	det
14	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 things	amod
15	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 fix	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 have	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 have	cc
18	tenants	tenant	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 have	nsubj
19	often	often	ADV	_	20 have	advmod
20	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 owns	conj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 ask	mark
22	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 have	xcomp
23	again	again	ADV	_	22 ask	advmod
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 again	cc
25	again	again	ADV	_	23 again	conj
26	before	before	SCONJ	_	28 happens	mark
27	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	28 happens	nsubj
28	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 ask	advcl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 owns	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rent	participle						vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent
2	own	present	the landlord	the house	a rented home			vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot house=Theme
3	fix	must	the landlord not said here	the big things				vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent thing=Patient
4	have	present	tenants				often property	tree rules
5	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive	tenants not said here			again		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	happen	present	anything					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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:2.

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): 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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