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title: Picture a kitchen in Leeds at seven o'clock: Mum is answering an ema… — A day at a grown-up's job · tree and pragmatics
description: Picture a kitchen in Leeds at seven o'clock: Mum is answering an email with one hand and stirring the pasta with the other, sighing about "another meeting that could have been an email", while Dad comes in late because the trains were cancelled again. Who acts: you, Mum, meeting, Dad. A sentence of 
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# A day at a grown-up's job, sentence 2

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Picture a kitchen in Leeds at seven o'clock: Mum is answering an email with one hand and stirring the pasta with the other, sighing about "another meeting that could have been an email", while Dad comes in late because the trains were cancelled again.

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**Who acts:** you, Mum, meeting, Dad · **What happens:** picture, answer, stir, sigh, be, come in · **To what, where:** kitchen, Leeds, email, pasta, trains · **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 (you, Mum, meeting, Dad), 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:2
# text = Picture a kitchen in Leeds at seven o'clock: Mum is answering an email with one hand and stirring the pasta with the other, sighing about "another meeting that could have been an email", while Dad comes in late because the trains were cancelled again.
# 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Picture	picture	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Leeds	Leeds	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	o'clock	o'clock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	1	punct	_	_
10	Mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	answering	answer	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	parataxis	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	email	email	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	stirring	stir	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	conj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	pasta	pasta	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	obl	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	sighing	sigh	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	conj	_	_
27	about	about	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	30	punct	_	_
29	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	30	det	_	_
30	meeting	meeting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
31	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	36	nsubj	_	_
32	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
33	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	aux	_	_
34	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	36	cop	_	_
35	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	email	email	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	acl:relcl	_	_
37	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	36	punct	_	_
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
39	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	41	mark	_	_
40	Dad	Dad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	nsubj	_	_
41	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:advcl
42	in	in	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=43:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
43	late	late	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	41	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=41:obl
44	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	48	mark	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	trains	train	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	nsubj:pass	_	_
47	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	48	aux:pass	_	_
48	cancelled	cancel	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	41	advcl	_	_
49	again	again	ADV	RB	_	48	advmod	_	_
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=imp, voice=narrator

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **picture** | imperative | you *not said here* | a kitchen |  | Leeds |  | at seven o'clock | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent kitchen=Theme |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | present · progressive | Mum | a email |  |  |  | with one hand | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent email=Eventuality |
| 3 | **stir** | gerund | Mum *not said here* | the pasta |  |  |  | with the other | vn shake-22.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent pasta=Patient with other=Co-Patient |
| 4 | **sigh** | gerund | Mum *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about another meeting | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about meeting=Topic |
| 5 | **is a** *in a quote* | could · perfect | another meeting | a email |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **come in** | present | Dad |  |  |  |  | late *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **cancel** | past · passive |  | the trains |  |  | again |  | tree rules |

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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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**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 ×2, R7-rel-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.

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