--- title: Damp is when walls get wet inside and grow black mould; in a rented… — When things break: boilers, plumbers and paint · tree and pragmatics description: Damp is when walls get wet inside and grow black mould; in a rented home the landlord is supposed to fix it, and some are slow to do so. Who acts: Damp, some. 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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 (Damp, some), 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:11 # text = Damp is when walls get wet inside and grow black mould; in a rented home the landlord is supposed to fix it, and some are slow to do so. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Damp damp NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 5 advmod _ _ 4 walls wall NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 get get VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 wet wet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 xcomp _ _ 7 inside inside ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 grow grow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 10 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 mould mould NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 rented rent VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 amod _ _ 16 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 landlord landlord NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj:pass _ _ 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux:pass _ _ 20 supposed suppose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 advcl _ _ 21 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 22 fix fix VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 xcomp _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 26 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 28 nsubj _ _ 27 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 28 slow slow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 conj _ _ 29 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 30 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 xcomp _ _ 31 so so ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Damp | | | | | get, inside, wet *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **grow** | present | Damp *not said here* | black mould | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mould=Theme | | 3 | **rent** | participle | | | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **suppose** | present · passive | | the landlord | | a rented home | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme | | 5 | **fix** | to-infinitive | | landlord | | | | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 6 | **is** | present | some | | | | | slow *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **do** | to-infinitive | some *not said here* | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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:11`. **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): 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: [When things break: boilers, plumbers a…, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/11-when-things-break/10/) - next →: [When things break: boilers, plumbers a…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/11-when-things-break/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/11-when-things-break/)