--- title: That is why grown-ups sound cross about houses: repairs cost money,… — When things break: boilers, plumbers and paint · tree and pragmatics description: That is why grown-ups sound cross about houses: repairs cost money, take time and turn the home upside down, but the trouble is almost always fixed in the end. Who acts: That, repairs. 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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 (That, repairs), 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:4 # text = That is why grown-ups sound cross about houses: repairs cost money, take time and turn the home upside down, but the trouble is almost always fixed in the end. # 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, R5-strong ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 That that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 2 nsubj _ _ 2 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 why why ADV WRB PronType=Rel 2 advmod _ _ 4 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 2 ccomp _ _ 5 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 6 punct _ _ 6 ups up VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 7 sound sound NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 cross cross NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 about about ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 houses house NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nmod _ _ 11 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 12 repairs repair NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 13 cost cost VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 14 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 take take VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 17 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 turn turn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=16:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:det 21 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:compound 22 upside upside NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 23 down down ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 25 but but CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 trouble trouble NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj:pass _ _ 28 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux:pass _ _ 29 almost almost ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 31 advmod _ _ 31 fixed fix VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj 32 in in ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **be** | present | That | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **grow** | participle | That *not said here* | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **up** | present | That *not said here* | sound cross | | | | about houses | tree rules | | 4 | **cost** | present | repairs | money | | | | | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme money=Value | | 5 | **take** | present | repairs *not said here* | | | | time | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **turn** | present | repairs *not said here* | the home | | | | down *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP ADJ.result»: agent=Agent home=Theme upside=Result | | 7 | **fix** | present · passive | | the trouble | | | in the end | always *property* | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: subject=Patient | 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. 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