--- title: Being close is lovely, but Mum's feelings are Mum's job; Tamsin's jo… — The only child: a quiet house · tree and pragmatics description: Being close is lovely, but Mum's feelings are Mum's job; Tamsin's job is being a kid. Who acts: feelings, job, Tamsin. A sentence of the lesson «The only child: a quiet house» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/498-the-only-child-a-quiet-house/23/) [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/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [The only child: a quiet house](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/498-the-only-child-a-quiet-house/) / 23 # The only child: a quiet house, sentence 23 Being close is lovely, but Mum's feelings are Mum's job; Tamsin's job is being a kid. **Who acts:** feelings, job, Tamsin · **What happens:** be, job · **To what, where:** job, kid This is a sentence of the lesson «The only child: a quiet house» of the everyday 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 (feelings, job, Tamsin), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:498-the-only-child-a-quiet-house.lesson:23 # text = Being close is lovely, but Mum's feelings are Mum's job; Tamsin's job is being a kid. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 498-the-only-child-a-quiet-house.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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 cop _ _ 2 close close ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 csubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 lovely lovely ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 6 but but CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 7 Mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod:poss _ _ 8 's 's PART POS _ 7 case _ _ 9 feelings feeling NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 10 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 11 Mum Mum PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nmod:poss _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 12 's 's PART POS _ 11 case _ _ 13 job job NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 15 Tamsin Tamsin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nmod:poss _ _ 16 's 's PART POS _ 15 case _ _ 17 job job NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 21 cop _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 kid kid NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | gerund | | | | | | close *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | present | | | | | | lovely *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **is a** | present | Mum's feelings | Mum's job | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **is a** | gerund | Tamsin's job | a kid | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **job** | | Tamsin | | | | | | nom job «act intransitive»: poss=agent | 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:everyday:498-the-only-child-a-quiet-house.lesson:23`. **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): 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: [The only child: a quiet house, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/498-the-only-child-a-quiet-house/20/) - next →: [The only child: a quiet house, 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/498-the-only-child-a-quiet-house/24/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/498-the-only-child-a-quiet-house/)