When things break: boilers, plumbers and paint, sentence 7

DIY means "do it yourself": fixing or building things at home instead of paying someone, which saves money but sometimes goes wrong and costs more.

Who acts: DIY · What happens: mean, do, build, pay, save, go · To what, where: fixing things, home, DIY, yourself, someone, money · 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 (DIY), 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	DIY	diy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct
4	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 means	ccomp
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 do	obj
6	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 do	iobj
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 things	punct
9	fixing	fixing	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 things	compound
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 building	cc
11	building	build	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 fixing	conj
12	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 means	obj
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 home	case
14	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 things	nmod
15	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	17 paying	mark
16	of	of	ADP	_	15 instead	fixed
17	paying	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 means	ccomp
18	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	17 paying	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 saves	punct
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 saves	nsubj
21	saves	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 someone	acl:relcl
22	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 saves	obj
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 goes	cc
24	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	25 goes	advmod
25	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 saves	conj
26	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 goes	xcomp
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 costs	cc
28	costs	cost	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 goes	conj
29	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	28 costs	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	mean	present	DIY	fixing things		home		tree rules
2	do in a quote	infinitive		DIY	yourself			tree rules
3	build	gerund	DIY not said here					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	pay	gerund		someone				vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Asset
5	save	present		money				vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme
6	go	present					sometimes, wrong property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	cost	present		more				vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme more=Value

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:7.

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): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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