Finding a job and getting on, sentence 16
Retiring means stopping paid work for good, usually in your sixties, and living on a pension and savings.
Who acts: Retiring · What happens: retire, mean, stop, pay, live · To what, where: paid work, sixties, pension · 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 (Retiring), 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 | Retiring | retire | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 means | csubj |
| 2 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | stopping | stop | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 means | xcomp |
| 4 | paid | pay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 work | amod |
| 5 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stopping | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 good | case |
| 7 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 stopping | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sixties | punct |
| 9 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 12 sixties | advmod |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 sixties | case |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 sixties | nmod:poss |
| 12 | sixties | sixties | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 stopping | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 living | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 living | cc |
| 15 | living | live | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 stopping | conj |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 pension | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 pension | det |
| 18 | pension | pension | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 living | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 savings | cc |
| 20 | savings | savings | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 18 pension | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 means | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | retire | gerund | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | mean | present | Retiring | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | stop not said to happen | gerund | Retiring not said here | paid work | your sixties | for good | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality work=Eventuality | ||
| 4 | pay | participle | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | live | gerund | Retiring not said here | a pension and savings | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on pension=Location |
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:16.
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, 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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