--- title: Picture a cold January evening in Manchester: Mum bangs the boiler a… — When things break: boilers, plumbers and paint · tree and pragmatics description: Picture a cold January evening in Manchester: Mum bangs the boiler and says "It's packed in again", Dad sighs "the plumber can't come till Thursday, and it'll cost an arm and a leg", and everyone boils the kettle for a wash. Who acts: you, Mum, Dad, plumber. 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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 (you, Mum, Dad, plumber), 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:3 # text = Picture a cold January evening in Manchester: Mum bangs the boiler and says "It's packed in again", Dad sighs "the plumber can't come till Thursday, and it'll cost an arm and a leg", and everyone boils the kettle for a wash. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Picture picture VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 3 cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 4 January January PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 evening evening NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:obl:unmarked 6 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 Manchester Manchester PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 9 Mum Mum PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 bangs bang VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 boiler boiler NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 15 " " PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ _ 16 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj:pass _ _ 17 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux:pass _ _ 18 packed pack VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 ccomp _ _ 19 in in ADP RP _ 18 compound:prt _ _ 20 again again ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 21 " " PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 Dad dad NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=24:nsubj|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 24 sighs sigh VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 25 " " PUNCT `` _ 30 punct _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 plumber plumber NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 28 ca can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 29 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 30 advmod _ _ 30 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 ccomp _ _ 31 till till ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 Thursday Thursday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 35 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 36 'll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 37 aux _ _ 37 cost cost VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 conj _ _ 38 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 arm arm NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 41 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 leg leg NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 conj _ _ 43 " " PUNCT '' _ 30 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=39:punct 44 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 45 and and CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 46 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 47 nsubj _ _ 47 boils boil VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 48 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 49 kettle kettle NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 obj _ _ 50 for for ADP IN _ 52 case _ _ 51 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 52 det _ _ 52 wash wash NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 obl _ _ 53 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=narrate, voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **picture** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | evening | | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **bang** | present | Mum | the boiler | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location boiler=Theme | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Mum *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **pack in** *in a quote* | present · passive | | boiler | | | again | | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme | | 5 | **sigh** | present | Dad | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **not** **come** *in a quote* | can | the plumber | | | | thursday | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **cost** *in a quote* | future | boiler | a arm and a leg | | | | | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme arm=Value | | 8 | **boil** | present | everyone | the kettle | | | | for a wash | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent kettle=Patient for wash=Beneficiary | 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:3`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/11-when-things-break/2/) - next →: [When things break: boilers, plumbers a…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/11-when-things-break/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/11-when-things-break/)