Shifts, nights and other ways of working, sentence 9

Self-employed people work for themselves, like many plumbers and hairdressers; they choose their hours but get no sick pay or holiday pay and must work out and pay their own tax.

Who acts: employed people, people · What happens: employ, work, choose, get, work out, pay · To what, where: sick pay, own tax

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 (employed people, people), 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	Self	self	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 employed	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Self	punct
3	employed	employ	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 people	amod
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 work	nsubj
5	work	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 themselves	case
7	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 work	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 plumbers	punct
9	like	like	ADP	_	11 plumbers	case
10	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 plumbers	amod
11	plumbers	plumber	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 work	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 hairdressers	cc
13	hairdressers	hairdresser	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 plumbers	conj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 choose	punct
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 choose	nsubj
16	choose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 work	parataxis
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 hours	nmod:poss
18	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 choose	obj
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 get	cc
20	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 choose	conj
21	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	23 pay	det
22	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 pay	amod
23	pay	pay	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 get	obj
24	or	or	CCONJ	_	26 pay	cc
25	holiday	holiday	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 pay	compound
26	pay	pay	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 pay	conj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 work	cc
28	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 work	aux
29	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 get	conj
30	out	out	ADP	_	29 work	compound:prt
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 pay	cc
32	pay	pay	VERB	Mood=Sub Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 work	conj
33	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 tax	nmod:poss
34	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 tax	amod
35	tax	tax	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 pay	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 work	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	employ	participle					vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	work	present	employed people			for people; like many plumbers and hairdressers	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for themselves=Beneficiary
3	choose	present	people		hour		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	get	present	people not said here	no sick pay or holiday pay			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pay=Stimulus
5	work out	must	people not said here				vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
6	pay	infinitive	people not said here	people's own tax			vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tax=Asset
7	tax		people				nom tax «possession transitive»: 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:002-shifts-nights-and-other-ways-of-working.lesson:9.

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, R8-pos-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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