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title: Working from home means doing a job at home with a computer; the par… — A day at a grown-up's job · tree and pragmatics
description: Working from home means doing a job at home with a computer; the parent is still at work and needs quiet, even in slippers. Who acts: Working, parent. 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 pragmatics of
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# A day at a grown-up's job, sentence 14

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Working from home means doing a job at home with a computer; the parent is still at work and needs quiet, even in slippers.

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**Who acts:** Working, parent · **What happens:** work, mean, do, be, need · **To what, where:** home, job, work, quiet, slippers · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Working, parent), 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:14
# text = Working from home means doing a job at home with a computer; the parent is still at work and needs quiet, even in slippers.
# 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): no change
1	Working	work	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	csubj	_	_
2	from	from	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
4	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	doing	do	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	ccomp	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	job	job	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	computer	computer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	parent	parent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
17	still	still	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
22	quiet	quiet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	even	even	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	slippers	slipper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **work** | gerund |  |  |  | home |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **mean** | present | Working |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **do** | gerund |  | a job |  | home with a computer |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Eventuality |
| 4 | **is** | present | the parent |  |  | work | still |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **need** | present | the parent *not said here* | quiet |  | slippers |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot quiet=Theme |

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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:14`.

**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): no change. **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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