When things break: boilers, plumbers and paint, sentence 6
A plumber fixes pipes, taps and toilets; "it'll cost an arm and a leg" only means it will be very expensive.
Who acts: plumber, boiler · What happens: fix, cost, mean, be · To what, where: pipes, arm · 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 (plumber, boiler), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 plumber | det |
| 2 | plumber | plumber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fixes | nsubj |
| 3 | fixes | fix | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 cost | parataxis |
| 4 | pipes | pipe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 fixes | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 taps | punct |
| 6 | taps | tap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 pipes | conj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 toilets | cc |
| 8 | toilets | toilet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 pipes | conj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 3 fixes | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 cost | punct |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 cost | nsubj |
| 12 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 cost | aux |
| 13 | cost | cost | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 arm | det |
| 15 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cost | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 leg | cc |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 leg | det |
| 18 | leg | leg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 arm | conj |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 cost | punct |
| 20 | only | only | ADV | _ | 21 means | advmod |
| 21 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 cost | ccomp |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 expensive | nsubj |
| 23 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 expensive | aux |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 expensive | cop |
| 25 | very | very | ADV | _ | 26 expensive | advmod |
| 26 | expensive | expensive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 means | ccomp |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fixes | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fix | present | a plumber | pipes and taps and toilets | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent pipe=Patient | ||||
| 2 | cost in a quote | future | boiler | a arm and a leg | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | mean | present | boiler not said here | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | future | boiler | expensive property | tree rules |
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:6.
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 ×3. 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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