Finding a job and getting on, sentence 15

A reference is a short message from a past employer or teacher saying the person was reliable; it is why grown-ups try to leave jobs politely.

Who acts: reference, short message, person, grown ups · What happens: be, say, grow, try, leave · To what, where: short message, past employer, jobs · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Finding a job and getting on» 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 (reference, short message, person, grown ups), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 reference	det
2	reference	reference	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 message	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 message	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 message	det
5	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 message	amod
6	message	message	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	from	from	ADP	_	10 employer	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 employer	det
9	past	past	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 employer	amod
10	employer	employer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 message	nmod
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 teacher	cc
12	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 employer	conj
13	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 message	acl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 person	det
15	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 reliable	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 reliable	cop
17	reliable	reliable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 saying	ccomp
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 try	punct
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 why	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 why	cop
21	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	25 try	advmod
22	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 ups	amod
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 grown	punct
24	ups	up	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 try	nsubj
25	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 message	parataxis
26	to	to	PART	_	27 leave	mark
27	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 try	xcomp
28	jobs	job	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 leave	obj
29	politely	politely	ADV	_	27 leave	advmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 message	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a reference	a short message	a past employer or teacher		tree rules
2	say speech: assert	gerund	a short message not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	the person			reliable property	tree rules
4	is	present	person			why property	tree rules
5	grow	participle					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	try	infinitive	grown ups				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
7	leave not said to happen	to-infinitive	grown ups not said here	jobs		politely property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=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:003-finding-a-job-and-getting-on.lesson:15.

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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