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title: Most grown-ups spend about a third of their weekdays at work, and a… — A day at a grown-up's job · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. Who acts: Most grown ups, you, lot, work. A sentence of the lesson «A day at a grown-up's job» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the 
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# A day at a grown-up's job, sentence 0

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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.

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**Who acts:** Most grown ups, you, lot, work · **What happens:** grow, spend, hear, be, leak · **To what, where:** third, work, home

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This is a sentence of the lesson «A day at a grown-up's job» 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 (Most grown ups, you, lot, work), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:adult-life:001-a-day-at-a-grown-ups-job.lesson:0
# text = 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.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = adult-life
# lesson = 001-a-day-at-a-grown-ups-job.lesson
# annotation = 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, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	4	amod	_	_
2	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	amod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	_
4	ups	up	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	spend	spend	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	about	about	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	third	third	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:obl|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	weekdays	weekday	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	lot	lot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	nmod	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	hear	hear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
25	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	26	det	_	_
26	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
27	leaking	leak	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	26	acl	_	_
28	in	in	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **spend** | present | Most grown ups | a third of ups's weekdays |  | work |  |  | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent third=Asset |
| 3 | **hear** | present | you |  |  | home |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **is a** | present | a lot of that work | that work |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **leak** | gerund | that work *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source |

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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.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:001-a-day-at-a-grown-ups-job.lesson:0`.

**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, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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