--- title: A boss is the person whose job is to decide what work needs doing an… — A day at a grown-up's job · tree and pragmatics description: A boss is the person whose job is to decide what work needs doing and check that it gets done; most bosses have bosses of their own. Who acts: boss, job, work, most bosses. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boss, job, work, most bosses), 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:5 # text = A boss is the person whose job is to decide what work needs doing and check that it gets done; most bosses have bosses of their own. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 boss boss NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 whose whose PRON WP$ Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 job job NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 decide decide VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 acl:relcl _ _ 11 what what DET WDT PronType=Int 12 det _ _ 12 work work NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 needs need VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 ccomp _ _ 14 doing do VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 13 xcomp _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 check check VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 conj _ _ 17 that that SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj:pass _ _ 19 gets get AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux:pass _ _ 20 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 ccomp _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=5:punct 22 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 23 amod _ _ 23 bosses boss NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 24 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 25 bosses boss NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 nmod _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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 | **is a** | present | a boss | the person | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | present | job | | | | | decide *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **need** | present | what work | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 4 | **do** *not said to happen* | gerund | what work *not said here* | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **check** | infinitive | job *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **do** | present · passive | | work | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | | 7 | **have** | present | most bosses | bosses of boss's own | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boss=Patient | 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:5`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [A day at a grown-up's job, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/1-a-day-at-a-grown-ups-job/4/) - next →: [A day at a grown-up's job, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/1-a-day-at-a-grown-ups-job/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/1-a-day-at-a-grown-ups-job/)