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title: An appraisal, or performance review, is a meeting where a boss talks… — A day at a grown-up's job · tree and pragmatics
description: An appraisal, or performance review, is a meeting where a boss talks through how someone has done over the year, a grown-up school report. Who acts: appraisal, boss, someone. 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 tr
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# A day at a grown-up's job, sentence 15

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An appraisal, or performance review, is a meeting where a boss talks through how someone has done over the year, a grown-up school report.

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**Who acts:** appraisal, boss, someone · **What happens:** be, talk through, do, grow up · **To what, where:** meeting

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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 (appraisal, boss, someone), 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:15
# text = An appraisal, or performance review, is a meeting where a boss talks through how someone has done over the year, a grown-up school report.
# 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): R4-particle ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	appraisal	appraisal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	performance	performance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	review	review	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:appos
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	meeting	meeting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	14	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:nmod
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	boss	boss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:compound
14	talks	talk	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
15	through	through	ADP	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
16	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	19	advmod	_	_
17	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	19	nsubj	_	_
18	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	ccomp	_	_
20	over	over	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
25	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	29	amod	_	_
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	_
27	up	up	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	Agree=R4-particle|Haiku=25:compound
28	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	report	report	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | a appraisal or performance review | a meeting |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **talk through** | present | a boss |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **do** | present · perfect | someone |  |  |  | year |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **grow up** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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:15`.

**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): R4-particle ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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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