Shifts, nights and other ways of working, sentence 12

Some people go to work ill because they can't afford to lose the pay, which spreads germs to everyone else.

Who acts: people, pay · What happens: go, work, not afford, lose, spread · To what, where: pay, germs

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 (people, pay), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 people	det
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 go	nsubj
3	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 work	mark
5	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 go	xcomp
6	ill	ill	ADV	_	5 work	advmod
7	because	because	SCONJ	_	11 afford	mark
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 afford	nsubj
9	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 afford	aux
10	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 afford	advmod
11	afford	afford	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 go	advcl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 lose	mark
13	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 afford	xcomp
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 pay	det
15	pay	pay	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lose	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 spreads	punct
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 spreads	nsubj
18	spreads	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 pay	acl:relcl
19	germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 spreads	obj
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 everyone	case
21	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	18 spreads	obl
22	else	else	ADV	_	21 everyone	advmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 go	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go	present	some people			vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	work	to-infinitive	some people not said here		ill property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not afford	can	people			tree rules
4	lose	to-infinitive	people not said here	the pay		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pay=Eventuality
5	spread	present	the pay	germs	to everyone	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location germ=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, 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:12.

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. 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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