--- title: A day at a grown-up's job — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «A day at a grown-up's job», a lesson of the adult life course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Most grown-ups spend about a third of their weekdays at work, and a lot of what you hear at home is that work leaking in. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/1-a-day-at-a-grown-ups-job/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Adult life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/) / A day at a grown-up's job # A day at a grown-up's job Lesson 1 of the adult life course of Mova's primary school: 18 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/adult-life/1-a-day-at-a-grown-ups-job/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/1-a-day-at-a-grown-ups-job/0/) — Most grown-ups spend about a third of their weekdays at work, and a lot of what you hear at home is that work leaking in. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/1-a-day-at-a-grown-ups-job/1/) — At work there is usually a boss who decides what needs doing, colleagues who do it alongside them, meetings to agree plans, and emails that keep arriving even in the evening. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/1-a-day-at-a-grown-ups-job/2/) — Picture a kitchen in Leeds at seven o'clock: Mum is answering an email with one hand and stirring the pasta with the other, sighing about "another meeting that could have been an email", while Dad comes in late because the trains were cancelled again. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/1-a-day-at-a-grown-ups-job/3/) — None of that grumbling means your parents hate their jobs or are cross with you; it is how grown-ups let off steam after a long day. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/1-a-day-at-a-grown-ups-job/4/) — Knowing the words (boss, colleague, appraisal, short-staffed) lets you understand what is really going on when work comes home. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/1-a-day-at-a-grown-ups-job/5/) — A boss is the person whose job is to decide what work needs doing and check that it gets done; most bosses have bosses of their own. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/1-a-day-at-a-grown-ups-job/6/) — Grown-ups follow a boss's requests because that is part of the deal for being paid, and the boss's opinion affects pay rises and promotion. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/1-a-day-at-a-grown-ups-job/7/) — Colleagues are the people you work alongside, often for more hours a week than you see your own family; some become friends and some get on your nerves. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/1-a-day-at-a-grown-ups-job/8/) — Stories about annoying colleagues told at home are private and should not be repeated outside. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/1-a-day-at-a-grown-ups-job/9/) — A meeting is when people at work gather, in a room or on a video call, to talk through plans and decide things; many go on too long and leave less time for the real work. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/1-a-day-at-a-grown-ups-job/10/) — Phones let work follow people home, so messages arrive in the evening; many families make a no-phones-at-meals rule for that reason. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/1-a-day-at-a-grown-ups-job/11/) — Office politics is the unofficial side of work: who gets on with whom, who gets the credit and who gets invited to the important meetings. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/1-a-day-at-a-grown-ups-job/12/) — A business trip is travel paid for by the employer to meet customers or go to a conference; it is mostly meetings and hotel rooms, not a holiday. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/1-a-day-at-a-grown-ups-job/13/) — Commuting is the daily journey to and from work; many people live far from their jobs because homes near city jobs cost much more. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/1-a-day-at-a-grown-ups-job/14/) — Working from home means doing a job at home with a computer; the parent is still at work and needs quiet, even in slippers. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/1-a-day-at-a-grown-ups-job/15/) — An appraisal, or performance review, is a meeting where a boss talks through how someone has done over the year, a grown-up school report. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/1-a-day-at-a-grown-ups-job/17/) — Being short-staffed means people have left or are off sick and nobody has replaced them, so the rest must cover their work too. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/1-a-day-at-a-grown-ups-job/18/) — When a parent seems frazzled after work, it is usually the workload, not anything the child did. - next →: [Shifts, nights and other ways of working](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/2-shifts-nights-and-other-ways-of-working/) - ↑ back to [Adult life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/)