--- title: Some home jobs, especially with water, gas and electricity, are too… — Looking after yourself and a home · tree and pragmatics description: Some home jobs, especially with water, gas and electricity, are too tricky or dangerous to do yourself, so grown-ups call and pay an expert like a plumber. Who acts: home jobs, grown ups. A sentence of the lesson «Looking after yourself and a home» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school w --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/38-looking-after-yourself-and-a-home/18/) [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/) / [Looking after yourself and a home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/38-looking-after-yourself-and-a-home/) / 18 # Looking after yourself and a home, sentence 18 Some home jobs, especially with water, gas and electricity, are too tricky or dangerous to do yourself, so grown-ups call and pay an expert like a plumber. **Who acts:** home jobs, grown ups · **What happens:** be, do, grow, call, pay · **To what, where:** yourself, expert · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Looking after yourself and a home» 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 (home jobs, grown ups), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:038-looking-after-yourself-and-a-home.lesson:18 # text = Some home jobs, especially with water, gas and electricity, are too tricky or dangerous to do yourself, so grown-ups call and pay an expert like a plumber. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 038-looking-after-yourself-and-a-home.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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 3 det _ _ 2 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 jobs job NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 5 especially especially ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 6 with with ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 gas gas NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:appos 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 electricity electricity NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 13 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 14 too too ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 tricky tricky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 16 or or CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 dangerous dangerous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 conj _ _ 18 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 19 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 xcomp _ _ 20 yourself yourself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 19 obj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 so so ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 23 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 25 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=25:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 24 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 25 punct _ _ 25 ups up NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 26 call call VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 parataxis _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 pay pay VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ _ 29 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 expert expert NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 like like ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 plumber plumber NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | some home jobs with water and gas and electricity | | | | | tricky *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **be** | | some home jobs with water and gas and electricity *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **do** | to-infinitive | some home jobs with water and gas and electricity *not said here* | yourself | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Eventuality | | 4 | **grow** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **call** | present | grown ups | | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **pay** | infinitive | grown ups *not said here* | a expert | | | | like a plumber | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent expert=Asset | 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:038-looking-after-yourself-and-a-home.lesson:18`. **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, R8-pos-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: [Looking after yourself and a home, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/38-looking-after-yourself-and-a-home/17/) - next →: [Money, work and the big choices, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/39-money-work-and-the-big-choices/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/38-looking-after-yourself-and-a-home/)