--- title: She is seeing someone to talk to and is off work for a while. — Sore backs, glasses and feeling low · tree and pragmatics description: She is seeing someone to talk to and is off work for a while. Who acts: Mum. A sentence of the lesson «Sore backs, glasses and feeling low» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/22-sore-backs-glasses-and-feeling-low/5/) [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/) / [Sore backs, glasses and feeling low](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/22-sore-backs-glasses-and-feeling-low/) / 5 # Sore backs, glasses and feeling low, sentence 5 She is seeing someone to talk to and is off work for a while. **Who acts:** Mum · **What happens:** see, talk, be · **To what, where:** someone This is a sentence of the lesson «Sore backs, glasses and feeling low» 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 (Mum), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:022-sore-backs-glasses-and-feeling-low.lesson:5 # text = She is seeing someone to talk to and is off work for a while. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 022-sore-backs-glasses-and-feeling-low.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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 seeing see VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 4 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 3 obj _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 talk talk VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 acl _ _ 7 to to ADP IN _ 6 obl _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 10 off off ADP IN _ 11 case _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 11 work work NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 12 for for ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 while while NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 15 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **see** | present · progressive | Mum | someone | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer someone=Stimulus | | 2 | **talk** | to-infinitive | Mum *not said here* | someone *not said here* | | | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | present | Mum *not said here* | | | | while | off work | 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:022-sore-backs-glasses-and-feeling-low.lesson:5`. **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): R7-rel-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: [Sore backs, glasses and feeling low, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/22-sore-backs-glasses-and-feeling-low/4/) - next →: [Sore backs, glasses and feeling low, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/22-sore-backs-glasses-and-feeling-low/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/22-sore-backs-glasses-and-feeling-low/)