Finding a job and getting on, sentence 3
Being turned down is normal for everyone, and being picked is the reward for trying again and again.
Who acts: reward · What happens: turn down, be, pick, try · To what, where: reward
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 (reward), 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 | Being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 turned | aux:pass |
| 2 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 normal | csubj |
| 3 | down | down | ADP | _ | 2 turned | compound:prt |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 normal | cop |
| 5 | normal | normal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 everyone | case |
| 7 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 5 normal | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 reward | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 reward | cc |
| 10 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 picked | aux:pass |
| 11 | picked | pick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 reward | csubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 reward | cop |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 reward | det |
| 14 | reward | reward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 normal | conj |
| 15 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 16 trying | mark |
| 16 | trying | try | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 reward | acl |
| 17 | again | again | ADV | _ | 16 trying | advmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 again | cc |
| 19 | again | again | ADV | _ | 17 again | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 normal | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn down | gerund · passive | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING» | ||||||
| 2 | is | present | for everyone; normal property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | pick | gerund · passive | vn chew-39.2 «NP V» | ||||||
| 4 | is a | present | the reward | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | try | gerund | the reward not said here | again | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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:3.
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, R6-punct-agree ×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.
See the release 0.4.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/3-finding-a-job-and-getting-on/3/