Shifts, nights and other ways of working, sentence 10
On a zero-hours contract the employer promises no set number of hours, so the hours and the pay can change every week.
Who acts: employer, hours · What happens: promise, change · To what, where: hours contract
This is a sentence of the lesson «Shifts, nights and other ways of working» 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 (employer, hours), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 5 hours | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 contract | det |
| 3 | zero | zero | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 hours | nummod |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 zero | punct |
| 5 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 contract | compound |
| 6 | contract | contract | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 promises | obl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 employer | det |
| 8 | employer | employer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 promises | nsubj |
| 9 | promises | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 12 number | det |
| 11 | set | set | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 number | amod |
| 12 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 promises | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 hours | case |
| 14 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 number | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 change | punct |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 hours | advmod |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 hours | det |
| 18 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 change | nsubj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 pay | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 pay | det |
| 21 | pay | pay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 hours | conj |
| 22 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 change | aux |
| 23 | change | change | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 promises | parataxis |
| 24 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 week | det |
| 25 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 change | obl:unmarked |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 promises | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | promise speech: promise | present | the employer | a hours contract | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent number=Theme | ||||
| 2 | change | can | the hours and the pay | week | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:002-shifts-nights-and-other-ways-of-working.lesson:10.
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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