--- title: A business trip is travel paid for by the employer to meet customers… — A day at a grown-up's job · tree and pragmatics description: 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. Who acts: business trip, trip. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (business trip, trip), 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:12 # text = 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. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 business business NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 trip trip NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 travel travel NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 paid pay VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 acl _ _ 7 for for ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 8 by by ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 employer employer NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl:agent _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 meet meet VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 acl _ _ 13 customers customer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 14 or or CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 conj _ _ 16 to to ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 conference conference NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=5:punct 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 21 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 22 mostly mostly ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 23 meetings meeting NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 hotel hotel NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 rooms room NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 conj _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 30 advmod _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 holiday holiday NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 conj _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a business trip | travel | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **pay** | participle | | travel *not said here* | | | | for *property* | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **meet** | to-infinitive | | customers | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent customer=Co-Agent | | 4 | **go** | infinitive | | | | a conference | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to conference=Initial\_Location | | 5 | **is a** | present | trip | meetings and hotel rooms and a holiday | | | | mostly *property* | tree rules | 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:12`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/1-a-day-at-a-grown-ups-job/11/) - next →: [A day at a grown-up's job, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/1-a-day-at-a-grown-ups-job/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/1-a-day-at-a-grown-ups-job/)