--- title: A home is like a big machine with lots of parts: pipes, wires, a boi… — When things break: boilers, plumbers and paint · tree and pragmatics description: A home is like a big machine with lots of parts: pipes, wires, a boiler, walls, a roof and bins that need emptying, and every part breaks or wears out sooner or later. Who acts: home, bins, part. 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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 (home, bins, part), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:011-when-things-break.lesson:0 # text = A home is like a big machine with lots of parts: pipes, wires, a boiler, walls, a roof and bins that need emptying, and every part breaks or wears out sooner or later. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 011-when-things-break.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): no change 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 4 like like ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 machine machine NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 with with ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 lots lot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nmod _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 parts part NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nmod _ _ 12 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 13 pipes pipe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 appos _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 wires wire NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 conj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 boiler boiler NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 walls wall NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 conj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 roof roof NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 bins bin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 conj _ _ 26 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 27 nsubj _ _ 27 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 acl:relcl _ _ 28 emptying empty VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 27 xcomp _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 31 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 32 det _ _ 32 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 33 breaks break VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 34 or or CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 wears wear VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 conj _ _ 36 out out ADP RP _ 35 compound:prt _ _ 37 sooner soon ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 35 advmod _ _ 38 or or CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 37 conj _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | a home | | | | | like a big machine; with lots of parts | tree rules | | 2 | **need** | present | bins | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 3 | **empty** *not said to happen* | gerund | bins *not said here* | | | | | | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP.Source V»: agent=Source | | 4 | **break** | present | every part | | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **wear out** | present | every part *not said here* | | | | | soon *property* | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=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:011-when-things-break.lesson:0`. **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): no change. **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: [Moving house and renting a home, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/10-moving-house-and-renting-a-home/18/) - next →: [When things break: boilers, plumbers a…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/11-when-things-break/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/11-when-things-break/)