--- title: The council collects rubbish on set days, with separate bins for gen… — When things break: boilers, plumbers and paint · tree and pragmatics description: The council collects rubbish on set days, with separate bins for general rubbish and recycling, and a missed bin day means rubbish piles up for a week or two. Who acts: council, missed bin day, rubbish. A sentence of the lesson «When things break: boilers, plumbers and paint» of the adult life cours --- [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/16/) [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/) / 16 # When things break: boilers, plumbers and paint, sentence 16 The council collects rubbish on set days, with separate bins for general rubbish and recycling, and a missed bin day means rubbish piles up for a week or two. **Who acts:** council, missed bin day, rubbish · **What happens:** collect, miss, mean, pile up · **To what, where:** rubbish · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (council, missed bin day, rubbish), 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:16 # text = The council collects rubbish on set days, with separate bins for general rubbish and recycling, and a missed bin day means rubbish piles up for a week or two. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 council council NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 collects collect VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 rubbish rubbish NOUN NN _ 3 obj _ _ 5 on on ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 set set ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 9 with with ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 separate separate ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 bins bin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 12 for for ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 general general ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 rubbish rubbish NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 recycling recycling NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=3:punct 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 20 missed miss VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 amod _ _ 21 bin bin NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 24 rubbish rubbish NOUN NN _ 25 nsubj _ _ 25 piles pile VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 ccomp _ _ 26 up up ADP RP _ 25 compound:prt _ _ 27 for for ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 week week NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 30 or or CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 29 conj _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | **collect** | present | the council | rubbish | | | day | with separate bins for general rubbish and recycling | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent rubbish=Patient with bin=Instrument | | 2 | **miss** | participle | | | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **mean** | present | a missed bin day | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **pile up** | present | rubbish | | | | week | | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme | 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:16`. **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): R2-punct-next ×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…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/11-when-things-break/15/) - next →: [Cars, chores and the shopping list, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/12-cars-chores-and-the-shopping-list/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/11-when-things-break/)