Paying for a home and the bills, sentence 5
Example: in a terraced house in Leeds, Mum opens the energy bill at the kitchen table, goes quiet, then says "The electric's nearly doubled." That evening the heating goes down a degree, Dad watches the smart meter jump when the kettle boils, and everyone is told to keep the doors shut.
Who acts: Mum, heating, Dad, kettle, everyone · What happens: terrace, open, go, say, double, go down · To what, where: energy bill, terraced house, electric, degree, meter jump, everyone · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Paying for a home and the bills» 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 (Mum, heating, Dad, kettle), 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 | Example | example | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 opens | punct |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 house | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 house | det |
| 5 | terraced | terrace | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 house | amod |
| 6 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 opens | obl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 Leeds | case |
| 8 | Leeds | Leeds | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 house | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 house | punct |
| 10 | Mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 opens | nsubj |
| 11 | opens | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Example | appos |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 bill | det |
| 13 | energy | energy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bill | compound |
| 14 | bill | bill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 opens | obj |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 table | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 table | det |
| 17 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 table | compound |
| 18 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 opens | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 goes | punct |
| 20 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 opens | conj |
| 21 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 goes | xcomp |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 says | punct |
| 23 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 says | advmod |
| 24 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 opens | conj |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 doubled | punct |
| 26 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 electric | det |
| 27 | electric | electric | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 doubled | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 doubled | aux:pass |
| 29 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 30 doubled | advmod |
| 30 | doubled | double | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 says | ccomp |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 opens | punct |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 opens | punct |
| 33 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 34 evening | det |
| 34 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 goes | obl:unmarked |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 heating | det |
| 36 | heating | heating | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 goes | nsubj |
| 37 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 opens | conj |
| 38 | down | down | ADV | _ | 37 goes | advmod |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 degree | det |
| 40 | degree | degree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 goes | obl:unmarked |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 watches | punct |
| 42 | Dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 watches | nsubj |
| 43 | watches | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 opens | conj |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 jump | det |
| 45 | smart | smart | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 meter | amod |
| 46 | meter | meter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 jump | compound |
| 47 | jump | jump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 watches | obj |
| 48 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 51 boils | mark |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 kettle | det |
| 50 | kettle | kettle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 boils | nsubj |
| 51 | boils | boil | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 47 jump | advcl |
| 52 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 56 told | punct |
| 53 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 56 told | cc |
| 54 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 56 told | nsubj:pass |
| 55 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 56 told | aux:pass |
| 56 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 opens | conj |
| 57 | to | to | PART | _ | 58 keep | mark |
| 58 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 56 told | xcomp |
| 59 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 60 doors | det |
| 60 | doors | door | NOUN | Number=Plur | 58 keep | obj |
| 61 | shut | shut | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 58 keep | xcomp |
| 62 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Example | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | terrace | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | open | present | Mum | the energy bill | a terraced house in Leeds | at the kitchen table | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent bill=Theme in house=Location | ||
| 3 | go | present | Mum not said here | quiet property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | present | Mum not said here | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | double in a quote | present · passive | the electric | nearly property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 6 | go down | present | the heating | a degree | evening | down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||
| 7 | watch | present | Dad | the meter jump | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jump=Theme | ||||
| 8 | boil | present | the kettle | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 9 | tell speech: assert | present · passive | everyone | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 10 | keep not said to happen | to-infinitive | everyone not said here | the doors | shut property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Theme |
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:006-paying-for-a-home-and-the-bills.lesson:5.
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 ×5, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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