--- title: A meeting is when people at work gather, in a room or on a video cal… — A day at a grown-up's job · tree and pragmatics description: A meeting is when people at work gather, in a room or on a video call, to talk through plans and decide things; many go on too long and leave less time for the real work. Who acts: meeting, people, many. 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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 (meeting, people, many), 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:9 # text = A meeting is when people at work gather, in a room or on a video call, to talk through plans and decide things; many go on too long and leave less time for the real work. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 meeting meeting NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 8 advmod _ _ 5 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 6 at at ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 work work NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 8 gather gather VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 13 or or CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 14 on on ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 video video NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 call call NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 talk talk VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 advcl _ _ 21 through through ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 plans plan NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 decide decide VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 conj _ _ 25 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 26 ; ; PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 nsubj _ _ 28 go go VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 advcl _ _ 29 on on ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 30 too too ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 28 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:advcl|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 leave leave VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 conj _ _ 34 less less ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 35 amod _ _ 35 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=33:obl:unmarked 36 for for ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 38 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 work work NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **be** | present | a meeting | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **gather** | present | people work | | | a room or a video call | | | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **talk** | to-infinitive | people work *not said here* | | | plans | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **decide** | infinitive | people work *not said here* | things | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent thing=Topic | | 5 | **go on** | present | many | | | | | long *property* | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **leave** | present | many *not said here* | | | | time | for the real work | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent for work=Recipient | 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:9`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×2. **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, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/1-a-day-at-a-grown-ups-job/8/) - next →: [A day at a grown-up's job, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/1-a-day-at-a-grown-ups-job/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/1-a-day-at-a-grown-ups-job/)