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title: Looking after yourself and a home means cooking, cleaning, laundry,… — Looking after yourself and a home · tree and pragmatics
description: Looking after yourself and a home means cooking, cleaning, laundry, shopping on a budget, paying bills, renting, finding a doctor, sleeping enough, being on time, making scary phone calls, reading what you sign and knowing when to call an expert. Who acts: Looking, you. A sentence of the lesson «Loo
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# Looking after yourself and a home, sentence 5

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Looking after yourself and a home means cooking, cleaning, laundry, shopping on a budget, paying bills, renting, finding a doctor, sleeping enough, being on time, making scary phone calls, reading what you sign and knowing when to call an expert.

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**Who acts:** Looking, you · **What happens:** look, mean, pay, rent, find, sleep · **To what, where:** cooking, bills, doctor, scary phone calls, cleaning, expert · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Looking, you), 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:5
# text = Looking after yourself and a home means cooking, cleaning, laundry, shopping on a budget, paying bills, renting, finding a doctor, sleeping enough, being on time, making scary phone calls, reading what you sign and knowing when to call an expert.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2
1	Looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	csubj	_	_
2	after	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	1	obl	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=3:cc
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
7	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	cooking	cooking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:compound
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct
10	cleaning	cleaning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	laundry	laundry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	shopping	shopping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	budget	budget	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	paying	pay	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	conj	_	_
20	bills	bill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	renting	rent	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	conj	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	finding	find	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	conj	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	doctor	doctor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	sleeping	sleep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	conj	_	_
29	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	33	cop	_	_
32	on	on	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
35	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	conj	_	_
36	scary	scary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
37	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	calls	call	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obj	_	_
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
40	reading	read	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	conj	_	_
41	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	40	obj	_	_
42	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
43	sign	sign	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	41	acl:relcl	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
45	knowing	know	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	40	conj	_	_
46	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	48	advmod	_	_
47	to	to	PART	TO	_	48	mark	_	_
48	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	45	xcomp	_	_
49	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	expert	expert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obj	_	_
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | gerund |  |  |  |  | after yourself |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **mean** | present | Looking | cooking and cleaning and laundry and shopping on a budget and time |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cooking=Topic |
| 3 | **pay** | gerund | Looking *not said here* | bills |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bill=Asset |
| 4 | **rent** | gerund | Looking *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **find** | gerund | Looking *not said here* | a doctor |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent doctor=Topic |
| 6 | **sleep** | gerund | Looking *not said here* |  |  |  |  | enough *property* | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **is** | gerund | Looking *not said here* |  |  |  | on time |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **make** | gerund | Looking *not said here* | scary phone calls |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset call=Product |
| 9 | **read** | gerund | Looking *not said here* | cleaning and laundry and shopping on a budget and time |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
| 10 | **sign** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 11 | **know** | gerund | Looking *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 12 | **call** | to-infinitive | Looking *not said here* | a expert |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent expert=Recipient |

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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.

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**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: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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-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/).

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