--- title: Tenants who cannot get a repair done may complain more than once or… — When things break: boilers, plumbers and paint · tree and pragmatics description: Tenants who cannot get a repair done may complain more than once or ask the council for help. Who acts: Tenants, repair. 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 cl --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/11-when-things-break/12/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Adult life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/) / [When things break: boilers, plumbers a…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/11-when-things-break/) / 12 # When things break: boilers, plumbers and paint, sentence 12 Tenants who cannot get a repair done may complain more than once or ask the council for help. **Who acts:** Tenants, repair · **What happens:** not get, do, complain, ask · **To what, where:** repair, council 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 (Tenants, repair), 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:12 # text = Tenants who cannot get a repair done may complain more than once or ask the council for help. # 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 Tenants tenant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 2 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 5 nsubj _ _ 3 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 acl:relcl _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 repair repair NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 xcomp _ _ 9 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 complain complain VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 11 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 10 advmod _ _ 12 than than ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 10 obl _ _ 14 or or CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 conj _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 council council NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 for for ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 help help NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 20 . . PUNCT . _ 10 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 | **not** **get** | can | Tenants | a repair | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **do** | participle | a repair *not said here* | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **complain** *speech: other* | may | Tenants | | | | | | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive | Tenants *not said here* | the council | | | | for help | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent council=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:011-when-things-break.lesson:12`. **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: [When things break: boilers, plumbers a…, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/11-when-things-break/11/) - next →: [When things break: boilers, plumbers a…, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/11-when-things-break/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/11-when-things-break/)