--- title: Grown-ups follow a boss's requests because that is part of the deal… — A day at a grown-up's job · tree and pragmatics description: Grown-ups follow a boss's requests because that is part of the deal for being paid, and the boss's opinion affects pay rises and promotion. Who acts: Grown ups, that, opinion, boss. 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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 (Grown ups, that, opinion, boss), 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:6 # text = Grown-ups follow a boss's requests because that is part of the deal for being paid, and the boss's opinion affects pay rises and promotion. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Grown grow NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 3 punct _ _ 3 ups grown-up NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 follow follow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 boss boss NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod:poss _ _ 7 's 's PART POS _ 6 case _ _ 8 requests request NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 9 because because SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 10 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 12 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:nsubj|HaikuPos=DET:DT:Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 11 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 12 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 advcl _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 deal deal NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 16 for for SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 17 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 18 aux:pass _ _ 18 paid pay VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 acl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 boss boss NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod:poss _ _ 23 's 's PART POS _ 22 case _ _ 24 opinion opinion NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 25 affects affect VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 26 pay pay NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 rises rise NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 promotion promotion NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 conj _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **follow** | present | Grown ups | a boss's requests | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent request=Theme | | 2 | **is a** | present | that | part | | | | of the deal | tree rules | | 3 | **pay** | gerund · passive | | the deal *not said here* | | | | | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP» | | 4 | **affect** | present | the boss's opinion | pay rises and promotion | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus rise=Experiencer | | 5 | **request** | | a boss | | | | | | nom request «communication transitive»: poss=agent | | 6 | **opine** | | the boss | | | | | | nom opinion «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | 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:6`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/1-a-day-at-a-grown-ups-job/5/) - next →: [A day at a grown-up's job, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/1-a-day-at-a-grown-ups-job/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/1-a-day-at-a-grown-ups-job/)