--- title: At work there is usually a boss who decides what needs doing, collea… — A day at a grown-up's job · tree and pragmatics description: 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. Who acts: boss, colleagues, emails. A sentence of the lesson «A day at a grown-up's job» of the adult life course of Mova's p --- [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/1/) [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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/1-a-day-at-a-grown-ups-job/) / 1 # A day at a grown-up's job, sentence 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. **Who acts:** boss, colleagues, emails · **What happens:** be, decide, do, agree, keep, arrive · **To what, where:** work, plans · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (boss, colleagues, emails), 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:1 # text = 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. # 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 ×5, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 At at ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 work work NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:obl 3 there there PRON EX _ 4 expl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:expl 4 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:cop|HaikuPos=AUX:VBZ:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 usually usually ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:advmod 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 boss boss NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root 8 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 9 nsubj _ _ 9 decides decide VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ _ 10 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 12 obj _ _ 11 needs need VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 doing do VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 ccomp _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 colleagues colleague NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 conj _ _ 15 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 16 nsubj _ _ 16 do do VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 acl:relcl _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 alongside alongside ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 meetings meeting NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 conj _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 agree agree VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 acl _ _ 24 plans plan NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 emails email NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 conj _ _ 28 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 29 nsubj _ _ 29 keep keep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 acl:relcl _ _ 30 arriving arrive VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 29 xcomp _ _ 31 even even ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 32 in in ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 evening evening NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **does** | present | a boss and colleagues and meetings and emails | | | work; there | | usually *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at work=Location | | 2 | **decide** | present | a boss and colleagues and meetings and emails | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **do** | present | | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | | 4 | **do** | present | colleagues | work | | | | alongside boss | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | | 5 | **agree** *speech: agree* | to-infinitive | a boss and colleagues and meetings and emails *not said here* | plans | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent plan=Topic | | 6 | **keep** | present | emails | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **arrive** | gerund | emails *not said here* | | | | evening | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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](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:1`. **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 ×5, R6-punct-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/). - ← previous: [A day at a grown-up's job, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/1-a-day-at-a-grown-ups-job/0/) - next →: [A day at a grown-up's job, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/1-a-day-at-a-grown-ups-job/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/1-a-day-at-a-grown-ups-job/)