Looking after yourself and a home, sentence 18
Some home jobs, especially with water, gas and electricity, are too tricky or dangerous to do yourself, so grown-ups call and pay an expert like a plumber.
Who acts: home jobs, grown ups · What happens: be, do, grow, call, pay · To what, where: yourself, expert · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Looking after yourself and a home» 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 (home jobs, grown ups), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 jobs | det |
| 2 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 jobs | compound |
| 3 | jobs | job | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 tricky | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 water | punct |
| 5 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 7 water | advmod |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 water | case |
| 7 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 jobs | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 gas | punct |
| 9 | gas | gas | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 water | conj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 electricity | cc |
| 11 | electricity | electricity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gas | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 jobs | punct |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 tricky | cop |
| 14 | too | too | ADV | _ | 15 tricky | advmod |
| 15 | tricky | tricky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 dangerous | cc |
| 17 | dangerous | dangerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 tricky | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 do | mark |
| 19 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 dangerous | xcomp |
| 20 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 19 do | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 grown | punct |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 26 call | advmod |
| 23 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 ups | amod |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 ups | punct |
| 25 | ups | up | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 call | nsubj |
| 26 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 tricky | parataxis |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 pay | cc |
| 28 | pay | pay | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 26 call | conj |
| 29 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 expert | det |
| 30 | expert | expert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 pay | obj |
| 31 | like | like | ADP | _ | 33 plumber | case |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 plumber | det |
| 33 | plumber | plumber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 pay | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 tricky | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | some home jobs with water and gas and electricity | tricky property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | some home jobs with water and gas and electricity not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | do | to-infinitive | some home jobs with water and gas and electricity not said here | yourself | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | grow | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | call | present | grown ups | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | pay | infinitive | grown ups not said here | a expert | like a plumber | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent expert=Asset |
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:038-looking-after-yourself-and-a-home.lesson:18.
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): 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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