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title: A home does not clean itself: dishes, hoovering, the bathroom and th… — Looking after yourself and a home · tree and pragmatics
description: A home does not clean itself: dishes, hoovering, the bathroom and the bins all need doing, and when you live alone it is all your job. Who acts: home, bins, you. A sentence of the lesson «Looking after yourself and a home» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree an
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# Looking after yourself and a home, sentence 7

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A home does not clean itself: dishes, hoovering, the bathroom and the bins all need doing, and when you live alone it is all your job.

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**Who acts:** home, bins, you · **What happens:** not clean, need, do, live, be · **To what, where:** home, job

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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 (home, bins, 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:7
# text = A home does not clean itself: dishes, hoovering, the bathroom and the bins all need doing, and when you live alone it is all your job.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	clean	clean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	5	obj	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
8	dishes	dish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	hoovering	hoover	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	bathroom	bathroom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	bins	bin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
17	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	advmod	_	_
18	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=10:conj
19	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	xcomp	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24:punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
22	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	24	advmod	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	advcl	_	_
25	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
27	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
28	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	30	det:predet	_	_
29	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	job	job	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **clean** | present · do-support | a home | home |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent itself=Patient |
| 2 | **need** | present | the bins |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 3 | **do** *not said to happen* | gerund | the bins *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **live** | present | you |  |  |  |  | alone *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **is a** | present | home | your job |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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**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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-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/).

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