Shifts, nights and other ways of working, sentence 11
When someone is too ill to work they call in sick; some employers keep paying them, some pay only a little, and the self-employed get nothing.
Who acts: someone, people, employers, some · What happens: be, work, call, keep, pay, employ · To what, where: sick, people, little, nothing · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (someone, people, employers, some), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 ill | advmod |
| 2 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 ill | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 ill | cop |
| 4 | too | too | ADV | _ | 5 ill | advmod |
| 5 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 call | advcl |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 work | mark |
| 7 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 ill | advcl |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 call | nsubj |
| 9 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 sick | case |
| 11 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 call | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 call | punct |
| 13 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 employers | det |
| 14 | employers | employer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 keep | nsubj |
| 15 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 call | parataxis |
| 16 | paying | pay | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 keep | xcomp |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 paying | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 pay | punct |
| 19 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 pay | nsubj |
| 20 | pay | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 call | parataxis |
| 21 | only | only | ADV | _ | 23 little | advmod |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 little | det |
| 23 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 pay | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 nothing | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 get | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 employed | det |
| 27 | self | self | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 employed | compound |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 self | punct |
| 29 | employed | employ | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 get | nsubj |
| 30 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 pay | conj |
| 31 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 30 get | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 call | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | someone | ill property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | work | to-infinitive | someone not said here | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | call speech: assert | present | people | sick | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | keep | present | some employers | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | pay | gerund | some employers not said here | people | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Asset | ||||
| 6 | pay | present | some | a little | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent little=Asset | ||||
| 7 | employ | participle | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 8 | get | present | nothing | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus |
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:11.
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): R6-punct-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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