Shifts, nights and other ways of working, sentence 6
Night shifts mean working through the night and sleeping in the day; nurses, drivers, bakers and warehouse workers often do them.
Who acts: Night shifts, nurses · What happens: mean, work, sleep, do · To what, where: shifts
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 (Night shifts, nurses), 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 | Night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 shifts | compound |
| 2 | shifts | shift | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 mean | nsubj |
| 3 | mean | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | working | work | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 mean | xcomp |
| 5 | through | through | ADP | _ | 7 night | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 night | det |
| 7 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 working | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 sleeping | cc |
| 9 | sleeping | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 working | conj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 day | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 day | det |
| 12 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sleeping | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 nurses | punct |
| 14 | nurses | nurse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 do | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 drivers | punct |
| 16 | drivers | driver | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 nurses | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 bakers | punct |
| 18 | bakers | baker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 nurses | conj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 workers | cc |
| 20 | warehouse | warehouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 workers | compound |
| 21 | workers | worker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 nurses | conj |
| 22 | often | often | ADV | _ | 23 do | advmod |
| 23 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 mean | parataxis |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 do | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 mean | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
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- voice
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- polarity
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- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Night shifts | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | work not said to happen | gerund | Night shifts not said here | night | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | sleep | gerund | Night shifts not said here | day | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | do | present | nurses and drivers and bakers and warehouse workers | shifts = shift | often property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Eventuality |
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:6.
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): R7-rel-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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