--- title: A plumber fixes pipes, taps and toilets; "it'll cost an arm and a le… — When things break: boilers, plumbers and paint · tree and pragmatics description: A plumber fixes pipes, taps and toilets; "it'll cost an arm and a leg" only means it will be very expensive. Who acts: plumber, boiler. 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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 (plumber, boiler), 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:6 # text = A plumber fixes pipes, taps and toilets; "it'll cost an arm and a leg" only means it will be very expensive. # 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 ×3 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 plumber plumber NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 fixes fix VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 parataxis _ _ 4 pipes pipe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 taps tap NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 conj _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 toilets toilet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 conj _ _ 9 ; ; PUNCT : _ 3 punct _ _ 10 " " PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 12 'll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 cost cost VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 14 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 arm arm NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 leg leg NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 19 " " PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct 20 only only ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 ccomp _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 23 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 24 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 26 cop _ _ 25 very very ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 expensive expensive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 ccomp _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fix** | present | a plumber | pipes and taps and toilets | | | | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent pipe=Patient | | 2 | **cost** *in a quote* | future | boiler | a arm and a leg | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **mean** | present | boiler *not said here* | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** | future | boiler | | | | | expensive *property* | tree rules | 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:6`. **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 ×3. **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…, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/11-when-things-break/5/) - next →: [When things break: boilers, plumbers a…, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/11-when-things-break/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/11-when-things-break/)