--- title: DIY means "do it yourself": fixing or building things at home instea… — When things break: boilers, plumbers and paint · tree and pragmatics description: DIY means "do it yourself": fixing or building things at home instead of paying someone, which saves money but sometimes goes wrong and costs more. Who acts: DIY. A sentence of the lesson «When things break: boilers, plumbers and paint» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its depe --- [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/7/) [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/) / 7 # When things break: boilers, plumbers and paint, sentence 7 DIY means "do it yourself": fixing or building things at home instead of paying someone, which saves money but sometimes goes wrong and costs more. **Who acts:** DIY · **What happens:** mean, do, build, pay, save, go · **To what, where:** fixing things, home, DIY, yourself, someone, money · **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 (DIY), 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:7 # text = DIY means "do it yourself": fixing or building things at home instead of paying someone, which saves money but sometimes goes wrong and costs more. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 DIY diy NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ _ 4 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 ccomp _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:ccomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obj _ _ 6 yourself yourself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 4 iobj _ _ 7 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 9 fixing fixing NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 10 or or CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 building build VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 12 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 13 at at ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 15 instead instead ADV RB ExtPos=SCONJ 17 mark _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 15 fixed _ _ 17 paying pay VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 ccomp _ _ 18 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 17 obj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 21 nsubj _ _ 21 saves save VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 acl:relcl _ _ 22 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 23 but but CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 sometimes sometimes ADV RB PronType=Ind 25 advmod _ _ 25 goes go VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 26 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 xcomp _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 costs cost VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:conj 29 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 28 obj _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | DIY | fixing things | | home | | | tree rules | | 2 | **do** *in a quote* | infinitive | | DIY | yourself | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **build** | gerund | DIY *not said here* | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 4 | **pay** | gerund | | someone | | | | | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Asset | | 5 | **save** | present | | money | | | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme | | 6 | **go** | present | | | | | | sometimes, wrong *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **cost** | present | | more | | | | | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme more=Value | 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:7`. **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): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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…, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/11-when-things-break/6/) - next →: [When things break: boilers, plumbers a…, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/11-when-things-break/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/11-when-things-break/)