When things break: boilers, plumbers and paint, sentence 4
That is why grown-ups sound cross about houses: repairs cost money, take time and turn the home upside down, but the trouble is almost always fixed in the end.
Who acts: That, repairs · What happens: be, grow, up, cost, take, turn · To what, where: sound cross, money, home, trouble, end
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 (That, repairs), 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 is | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Rel | 2 is | advmod |
| 4 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 is | ccomp |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 ups | punct |
| 6 | ups | up | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 grown | conj |
| 7 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cross | compound |
| 8 | cross | cross | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ups | obj |
| 9 | about | about | ADP | _ | 10 houses | case |
| 10 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 cross | nmod |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 repairs | punct |
| 12 | repairs | repair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 cost | nsubj |
| 13 | cost | cost | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 grown | parataxis |
| 14 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cost | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 take | punct |
| 16 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 cost | conj |
| 17 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 take | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 turn | cc |
| 19 | turn | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 cost | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 home | det |
| 21 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 turn | obj |
| 22 | upside | upside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 turn | obj |
| 23 | down | down | ADV | _ | 19 turn | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 fixed | punct |
| 25 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 31 fixed | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 trouble | det |
| 27 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 fixed | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 fixed | aux:pass |
| 29 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 30 always | advmod |
| 30 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 31 fixed | advmod |
| 31 | fixed | fix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 cost | conj |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 end | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 end | det |
| 34 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 fixed | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 why | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | That | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | grow | participle | That not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | up | present | That not said here | sound cross | about houses | tree rules | |||
| 4 | cost | present | repairs | money | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme money=Value | ||||
| 5 | take | present | repairs not said here | time | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | turn | present | repairs not said here | the home | down property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP ADJ.result»: agent=Agent home=Theme upside=Result | |||
| 7 | fix | present · passive | the trouble | in the end | always property | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: subject=Patient |
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:4.
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, R5-strong ×3, 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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