--- title: Picture a flat in Toronto: every evening Mum sits at the laptop send… — Finding a job and getting on · tree and pragmatics description: Picture a flat in Toronto: every evening Mum sits at the laptop sending off applications, gets "no" after "no", and then one Tuesday bursts through the door shouting "I got it!" while the whole family cheers. Who acts: you, evening Mum, I, whole family. 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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, evening Mum, I, whole family), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:003-finding-a-job-and-getting-on.lesson:2 # text = Picture a flat in Toronto: every evening Mum sits at the laptop sending off applications, gets "no" after "no", and then one Tuesday bursts through the door shouting "I got it!" while the whole family cheers. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 003-finding-a-job-and-getting-on.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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×4, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Picture picture VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 flat flat NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 Toronto Toronto PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 7 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 8 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:det 8 evening evening NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 Mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 sits sit VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 11 at at ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 laptop laptop NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 14 sending send VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 advcl _ _ 15 off off ADP RP _ 14 compound:prt _ _ 16 applications application NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 gets get VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 19 " " PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ _ 20 no no INTJ UH Polarity=Neg 18 discourse _ _ 21 " " PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct 22 after after ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 " " PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ _ 24 no no INTJ UH Polarity=Neg 18 obl _ _ 25 " " PUNCT '' _ 24 punct _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 28 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 31 advmod _ _ 29 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 30 nummod _ _ 30 Tuesday Tuesday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=31:compound 31 bursts burst VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 32 through through ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 35 shouting shout VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 31 advcl _ _ 36 " " PUNCT `` _ 38 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=35:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 37 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 38 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 ccomp _ _ 39 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 obj _ _ 40 ! ! PUNCT . _ 38 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct 41 " " PUNCT '' _ 38 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct 42 while while SCONJ IN _ 46 mark _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 44 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=46:amod 45 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 nsubj _ _ 46 cheers cheer VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 advcl _ _ 47 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: changed form=imp, act=request, voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **picture** | imperative | you *not said here* | a flat | | Toronto | | | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent flat=Theme | | 2 | **sit** | present | evening Mum | | | the laptop | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at laptop=Location | | 3 | **send off** | gerund | evening Mum *not said here* | applications | | | | | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent application=Theme | | 4 | **get** | present | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **burst** | present | you *not said here* | | | the door | then; tuesday | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through door=Location | | 6 | **shout** *speech: express* | gerund | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 7 | **get** *in a quote* | past | I | flat | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | | 8 | **cheer** | present | the whole family | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | 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:003-finding-a-job-and-getting-on.lesson:2`. **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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×4, 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: [Finding a job and getting on, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/3-finding-a-job-and-getting-on/1/) - next →: [Finding a job and getting on, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/3-finding-a-job-and-getting-on/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/3-finding-a-job-and-getting-on/)