--- title: Example: in a terraced house in Leeds, Mum opens the energy bill at… — Paying for a home and the bills · tree and pragmatics description: Example: in a terraced house in Leeds, Mum opens the energy bill at the kitchen table, goes quiet, then says "The electric's nearly doubled." That evening the heating goes down a degree, Dad watches the smart meter jump when the kettle boils, and everyone is told to keep the doors shut. 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That evening the heating goes down a degree, Dad watches the smart meter jump when the kettle boils, and everyone is told to keep the doors shut. **Who acts:** Mum, heating, Dad, kettle, everyone · **What happens:** terrace, open, go, say, double, go down · **To what, where:** energy bill, terraced house, electric, degree, meter jump, everyone · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Paying for a home and the bills» 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 (Mum, heating, Dad, kettle), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:006-paying-for-a-home-and-the-bills.lesson:5 # text = Example: in a terraced house in Leeds, Mum opens the energy bill at the kitchen table, goes quiet, then says "The electric's nearly doubled." That evening the heating goes down a degree, Dad watches the smart meter jump when the kettle boils, and everyone is told to keep the doors shut. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 006-paying-for-a-home-and-the-bills.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 ×5, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Example example NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:nsubj:outer 2 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 terraced terrace VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 amod _ _ 6 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 Leeds Leeds PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 10 Mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 opens open VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 appos _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 energy energy NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 bill bill NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 15 at at ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 kitchen kitchen NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 table table NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:nmod 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 goes go VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 21 quiet quiet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 xcomp _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 24 advmod _ _ 24 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 25 " " PUNCT `` _ 30 punct _ _ 26 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 electric electric NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj:pass _ _ 28 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux:pass _ _ 29 nearly nearly ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 doubled double VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 ccomp _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ 32 " " PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ _ 33 That that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 34 det _ _ 34 evening evening NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl:unmarked _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 heating heating NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nsubj _ _ 37 goes go VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 38 down down ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 39 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 degree degree NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl:unmarked _ _ 41 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 42 Dad dad NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nsubj _ _ 43 watches watch VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 45 smart smart ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=47:amod 46 meter meter NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 compound _ _ 47 jump jump NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obj _ _ 48 when when SCONJ WRB _ 51 mark _ _ 49 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 50 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=51:det 50 kettle kettle NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=51:compound 51 boils boil VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 47 advcl _ _ 52 , , PUNCT , _ 56 punct _ _ 53 and and CCONJ CC _ 56 cc _ _ 54 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 56 nsubj:pass _ _ 55 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 56 aux:pass _ _ 56 told tell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=43:conj 57 to to PART TO _ 58 mark _ _ 58 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 56 xcomp _ _ 59 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 60 det _ _ 60 doors door NOUN NNS Number=Plur 58 obj _ _ 61 shut shut ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 58 xcomp _ _ 62 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **terrace** | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **open** | present | Mum | the energy bill | | a terraced house in Leeds | | at the kitchen table | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent bill=Theme in house=Location | | 3 | **go** | present | Mum *not said here* | | | | | quiet *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Mum *not said here* | | | | then | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **double** *in a quote* | present · passive | | the electric | | | | nearly *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | | 6 | **go down** | present | the heating | a degree | | | evening | down *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 7 | **watch** | present | Dad | the meter jump | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jump=Theme | | 8 | **boil** | present | the kettle | | | | | | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 9 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present · passive | | everyone | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | | 10 | **keep** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | everyone *not said here* | the doors | | | | shut *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Theme | 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:006-paying-for-a-home-and-the-bills.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×5, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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. 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