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title: Commuting is the daily journey to and from work; many people live fa… — A day at a grown-up's job · tree and pragmatics
description: Commuting is the daily journey to and from work; many people live far from their jobs because homes near city jobs cost much more. Who acts: Commuting, many people, homes, people. 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 dependen
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# A day at a grown-up's job, sentence 13

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Commuting is the daily journey to and from work; many people live far from their jobs because homes near city jobs cost much more.

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**Who acts:** Commuting, many people, homes, people · **What happens:** be, live, cost, job · **To what, where:** daily journey, more

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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 (Commuting, many people, homes, people), 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:13
# text = Commuting is the daily journey to and from work; many people live far from their jobs because homes near city jobs cost much more.
# 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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	Commuting	commute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:nsubj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	daily	daily	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:case
9	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
14	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	advmod	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	jobs	job	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
18	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
19	homes	home	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
20	near	near	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	jobs	job	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
23	cost	cost	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:advcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
24	much	much	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	23	obj	_	_
26	.	.	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 | **is a** | present | Commuting | the daily journey |  |  |  | to work | tree rules |
| 2 | **live** | present | many people |  |  |  |  | far *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **cost** | present | homes near city jobs | more |  |  |  |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme more=Value |
| 4 | **job** |  | people |  |  |  |  |  | nom job «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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:13`.

**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 ×1, R8-pos-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/).

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