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title: Big building jobs often take longer and cost more than planned. — When things break: boilers, plumbers and paint · tree and pragmatics
description: Big building jobs often take longer and cost more than planned. Who acts: building jobs. A sentence of the lesson «When things break: boilers, plumbers and paint» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# When things break: boilers, plumbers and paint, sentence 10

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Big building jobs often take longer and cost more than planned.

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**Who acts:** building jobs · **What happens:** take, cost, plan · **To what, where:** more

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This is a sentence of the lesson «When things break: boilers, plumbers and paint» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (building jobs), 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:10
# text = Big building jobs often take longer and cost more than planned.
# 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	Big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	building	building	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	jobs	job	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	often	often	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	take	take	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	cost	cost	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
9	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	obj	_	_
10	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	planned	plan	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	advcl	_	_
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | present | building jobs |  |  |  |  | long, often *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **cost** | present | building jobs *not said here* | more |  |  |  |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme more=Value |
| 3 | **plan** | participle | building jobs *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |

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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.

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**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.

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