--- title: Knowing the words (boss, colleague, appraisal, short-staffed) lets y… — A day at a grown-up's job · tree and pragmatics description: Knowing the words (boss, colleague, appraisal, short-staffed) lets you understand what is really going on when work comes home. Who acts: Knowing, you, work. 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 pragma --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/1-a-day-at-a-grown-ups-job/4/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Adult life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/) / [A day at a grown-up's job](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/1-a-day-at-a-grown-ups-job/) / 4 # A day at a grown-up's job, sentence 4 Knowing the words (boss, colleague, appraisal, short-staffed) lets you understand what is really going on when work comes home. **Who acts:** Knowing, you, work · **What happens:** know, staff, let, understand, go on, come · **To what, where:** words · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Knowing, you, work), 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:4 # text = Knowing the words (boss, colleague, appraisal, short-staffed) lets you understand what is really going on when work comes home. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Knowing know VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 15 csubj _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obj _ _ 4 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 5 punct _ _ 5 boss boss NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 appos _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 colleague colleague NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 appraisal appraisal NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 11 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 12 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 11 punct _ _ 13 staffed staff VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 conj _ _ 14 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 11 punct _ _ 15 lets let VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 16 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 understand understand VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 xcomp _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:xcomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 21 nsubj _ _ 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 20 really really ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 ccomp _ _ 22 on on ADP RP _ 21 compound:prt _ _ 23 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 25 advmod _ _ 24 work work NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 25 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 advcl _ _ 26 home home ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 15 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 | **know** | gerund | | the words | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus | | 2 | **staff** | participle | Knowing *not said here* | | | | | | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **let** | present | Knowing | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **understand** | infinitive | you | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 5 | **go on** | present · progressive | | | | | | | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **come** | present | work | | | | | home *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:4`. **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): R8-pos-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [A day at a grown-up's job, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/1-a-day-at-a-grown-ups-job/3/) - next →: [A day at a grown-up's job, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/1-a-day-at-a-grown-ups-job/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/1-a-day-at-a-grown-ups-job/)