--- title: Picture a kitchen in Adelaide: Dad comes off the phone pale and says… — When work goes wrong · tree and pragmatics description: Picture a kitchen in Adelaide: Dad comes off the phone pale and says "They're letting people go", and later that night the kids hear Mum and Dad talking quietly about saving money in case it's him. Who acts: you, Dad, people, kids. A sentence of the lesson «When work goes wrong» of the adult life co --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/4-when-work-goes-wrong/2/) [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/) / [When work goes wrong](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/4-when-work-goes-wrong/) / 2 # When work goes wrong, sentence 2 Picture a kitchen in Adelaide: Dad comes off the phone pale and says "They're letting people go", and later that night the kids hear Mum and Dad talking quietly about saving money in case it's him. **Who acts:** you, Dad, people, kids, Mum, up · **What happens:** picture, come off, say, let, go, hear · **To what, where:** kitchen, Adelaide, phone, Mum, money, Dad · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «When work goes wrong» 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 (you, Dad, people, kids), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:004-when-work-goes-wrong.lesson:2 # text = Picture a kitchen in Adelaide: Dad comes off the phone pale and says "They're letting people go", and later that night the kids hear Mum and Dad talking quietly about saving money in case it's him. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 004-when-work-goes-wrong.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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×5, R8-pos-agree ×4 1 Picture picture VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 kitchen kitchen NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 Adelaide Adelaide PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 7 Dad dad NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:advcl 9 off off ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 phone phone NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 12 pale pale ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 xcomp _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=8:cc 14 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 15 " " PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ _ 16 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 17 're be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 letting let VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:conj 19 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 20 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 xcomp _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=18:xcomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 " " PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct 22 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=1:cc 24 later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 26 advmod _ _ 25 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 26 det _ _ 26 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl:unmarked _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 kids kid NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ _ 29 hear hear VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=1:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 30 Mum Mum PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=29:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=30:cc 32 Dad Dad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=30:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 33 talking talk VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 29 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:advcl 34 quietly quietly ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 35 about about SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=36:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 36 saving save VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 33 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=33:obl 37 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ _ 38 in in SCONJ IN ExtPos=ADP 42 mark _ _ 39 case case NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 fixed _ _ 40 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ _ 41 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 42 cop _ _ 42 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 advcl _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **picture** | imperative | you *not said here* | a kitchen | | Adelaide | | | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent kitchen=Theme | | 2 | **come off** | present | Dad | the phone | | | | pale *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Dad *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **let** *in a quote* | present · progressive | people | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **go** *in a quote* | infinitive | people | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **hear** | present | the kids | Mum and Dad | | | night | | tree rules | | 7 | **talk** | gerund | Mum and Dad *not said here* | | | | | quietly *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **save** | gerund | Mum and Dad *not said here* | money | | | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme | | 9 | **is a** | present | up | Dad | | | | | 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:004-when-work-goes-wrong.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): R1-cc-next ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×5, R8-pos-agree ×4. **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: [When work goes wrong, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/4-when-work-goes-wrong/1/) - next →: [When work goes wrong, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/4-when-work-goes-wrong/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/4-when-work-goes-wrong/)