--- title: Some jobs grown-ups do themselves, which is called DIY, and some nee… — When things break: boilers, plumbers and paint · tree and pragmatics description: Some jobs grown-ups do themselves, which is called DIY, and some need a trained person like a plumber or an electrician, who is busy and costs a lot. Who acts: jobs, some, electrician. 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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 (jobs, some, electrician), 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:1 # text = Some jobs grown-ups do themselves, which is called DIY, and some need a trained person like a plumber or an electrician, who is busy and costs a lot. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 det _ _ 2 jobs job NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:obj 3 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:acl 4 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 3 punct _ _ 5 ups up NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 6 do do VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 themselves themselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 6 obj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 11 nsubj:pass _ _ 10 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux:pass _ _ 11 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 advcl _ _ 12 DIY diy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 xcomp _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 16 nsubj _ _ 16 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 trained train VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 amod _ _ 19 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 20 like like ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 plumber plumber NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 23 or or CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 electrician electrician NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 conj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 29 nsubj _ _ 28 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 29 busy busy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 acl:relcl _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 costs cost VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 conj _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 lot lot NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 6 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 | **grow** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **do** | present | some jobs | ups *= up* | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Eventuality | | 3 | **call** | present · passive | | | | | | diy *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | | 4 | **need** | present | some | a trained person | | | | like a plumber or a electrician | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot person=Theme | | 5 | **train** | participle | | | | | | | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is** | present | a electrician | | | | | busy *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **cost** | present | a electrician *not said here* | a lot | | | | | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme lot=Value | 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:1`. **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): R5-strong ×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: [When things break: boilers, plumbers a…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/11-when-things-break/0/) - next →: [When things break: boilers, plumbers a…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/11-when-things-break/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/11-when-things-break/)