When things break: boilers, plumbers and paint, sentence 9

Having the kitchen redone means builders take the old one out and put a new one in, so for a while there is nowhere to cook and families eat takeaway.

Who acts: kitchen, Having, builders, families · What happens: have, redo, mean, take out, put, be · To what, where: old one, new one, takeaway · 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 (kitchen, Having, builders, families), 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	Having	have	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 means	csubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 kitchen	det
3	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 redone	nsubj
4	redone	redo	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	1 Having	xcomp
5	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	builders	builder	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 take	nsubj
7	take	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 means	ccomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 one	det
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 one	amod
10	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 take	obj
11	out	out	ADP	_	7 take	compound:prt
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 put	cc
13	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 take	conj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 one	det
15	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 one	amod
16	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 put	obj
17	in	in	ADV	_	13 put	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 cook	punct
19	so	so	ADV	_	24 is	advmod
20	for	for	ADP	_	22 while	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 while	det
22	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 is	obl
23	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	24 is	expl
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 cook	cop
25	nowhere	nowhere	ADV	PronType=Neg	27 cook	advmod
26	to	to	PART	_	27 cook	mark
27	cook	cook	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 means	conj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 eat	cc
29	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 eat	nsubj
30	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 cook	conj
31	takeaway	takeaway	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 eat	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 means	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	gerund				tree rules
2	redo	participle	the kitchen			tree rules
3	mean	present	Having			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	take out	present	builders	the old one		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme
5	put	infinitive	builders not said here	a new one		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent one=Goal
6	is	present	Having not said here		cook, nowhere property	tree rules
7	eat	present	families	takeaway		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent takeaway=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:9.

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 ×3, 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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