--- title: In houses joined together, sound travels through the walls, so grown… — When things break: boilers, plumbers and paint · tree and pragmatics description: In houses joined together, sound travels through the walls, so grown-ups first knock and ask politely and only later complain to the landlord or the council. Who acts: sound, grown ups. 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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 (sound, grown ups), 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:15 # text = In houses joined together, sound travels through the walls, so grown-ups first knock and ask politely and only later complain to the landlord or the council. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 houses house NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 3 joined join VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 acl _ _ 4 together together ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 sound sound NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 travels travel VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 through through ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 walls wall NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 12 so so CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 13 grown grow NOUN NN _ 15 compound _ _ 14 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 15 punct _ _ 15 ups up NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 16 first first ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 knock knock VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=17:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 politely politely ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 22 only only ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 24 advmod _ _ 24 complain complain VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=19:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 to to ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 landlord landlord NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 28 or or CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 council council NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 conj _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **join** | participle | | houses *not said here* | | | | together *property* | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **travel** | present | sound | | | houses | | through the walls | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Trajectory | | 3 | **knock** | present | grown ups | | | | | first *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive | grown ups *not said here* | | | | | politely *property* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **complain** *speech: other* | infinitive | grown ups *not said here* | | the landlord or the council | | | late *property* | vn complain-37.8 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to landlord=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:15`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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…, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/11-when-things-break/14/) - next →: [When things break: boilers, plumbers a…, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/11-when-things-break/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/11-when-things-break/)