A day at a grown-up's job, sentence 17

Being short-staffed means people have left or are off sick and nobody has replaced them, so the rest must cover their work too.

Who acts: people, nobody, rest · What happens: staff, mean, leave, be, replace, cover · To what, where: people, work · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «A day at a grown-up's job» 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 (people, nobody, rest), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 staffed	aux:pass
2	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 staffed	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 staffed	punct
4	staffed	staff	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 means	csubj
5	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 left	nsubj
7	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 left	aux
8	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 means	ccomp
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 sick	cc
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 sick	cop
11	off	off	ADV	_	12 sick	advmod
12	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 left	conj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 replaced	cc
14	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	16 replaced	nsubj
15	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 replaced	aux
16	replaced	replace	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 left	conj
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 replaced	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 cover	punct
19	so	so	ADV	_	23 cover	advmod
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 rest	det
21	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 cover	nsubj
22	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 cover	aux
23	cover	cover	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 means	parataxis
24	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 work	nmod:poss
25	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 cover	obj
26	too	too	ADV	_	23 cover	advmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	staff	gerund · passive				vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»
2	mean	present				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	leave	present · perfect	people			vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	present	people not said here		off, sick property	tree rules
5	replace	present · perfect	nobody	people		vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Co-Theme
6	cover	must	the rest	people's work		vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme work=Destination
7	work		people			nom work «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, 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:001-a-day-at-a-grown-ups-job.lesson:17.

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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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.

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