When things break: boilers, plumbers and paint, sentence 3

Picture a cold January evening in Manchester: Mum bangs the boiler and says "It's packed in again", Dad sighs "the plumber can't come till Thursday, and it'll cost an arm and a leg", and everyone boils the kettle for a wash.

Who acts: you, Mum, Dad, plumber, boiler, everyone · What happens: picture, bang, say, pack in, sigh, not come · To what, where: boiler, arm, kettle · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (you, Mum, Dad, plumber), 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	Picture	picture	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 evening	det
3	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 evening	amod
4	January	January	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 evening	compound
5	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Picture	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 Manchester	case
7	Manchester	Manchester	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 evening	nmod
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 bangs	punct
9	Mum	Mum	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 bangs	nsubj
10	bangs	bang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Picture	parataxis
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 boiler	det
12	boiler	boiler	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bangs	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 says	cc
14	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 bangs	conj
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 packed	punct
16	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 packed	nsubj:pass
17	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 packed	aux:pass
18	packed	pack	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 says	ccomp
19	in	in	ADP	_	18 packed	compound:prt
20	again	again	ADV	_	18 packed	advmod
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 packed	punct
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 sighs	punct
23	Dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sighs	nsubj
24	sighs	sigh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 bangs	conj
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	30 come	punct
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 plumber	det
27	plumber	plumber	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 come	nsubj
28	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 come	aux
29	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 come	advmod
30	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 sighs	ccomp
31	till	till	ADP	_	32 Thursday	case
32	Thursday	Thursday	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 come	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 cost	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 cost	cc
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 cost	nsubj
36	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 cost	aux
37	cost	cost	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 come	conj
38	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 arm	det
39	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 cost	obj
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 leg	cc
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 leg	det
42	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 arm	conj
43	"	"	PUNCT	_	30 come	punct
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 boils	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 boils	cc
46	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	47 boils	nsubj
47	boils	boil	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 sighs	conj
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 kettle	det
49	kettle	kettle	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 boils	obj
50	for	for	ADP	_	52 wash	case
51	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	52 wash	det
52	wash	wash	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 boils	obl
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Picture	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=narrate, voice=narrator

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	picture	imperative	you not said here		evening		vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent
2	bang	present	Mum	the boiler			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location boiler=Theme
3	say speech: assert	present	Mum not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	pack in in a quote	present · passive		boiler	again		vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme
5	sigh	present	Dad				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	not come in a quote	can	the plumber		thursday		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	cost in a quote	future	boiler	a arm and a leg			vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme arm=Value
8	boil	present	everyone	the kettle		for a wash	vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent kettle=Patient for wash=Beneficiary

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:3.

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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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