Finding a job and getting on, sentence 5
Job hunting means searching adverts and sending applications, often dozens before getting anywhere; many get no reply at all.
Who acts: Job hunting, many · What happens: mean, search, send, get · To what, where: adverts, applications, reply, all
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 (Job hunting, many), 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 | Job | job | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hunting | compound |
| 2 | hunting | hunting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 means | nsubj |
| 3 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | searching | search | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 means | xcomp |
| 5 | adverts | advert | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 searching | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 sending | cc |
| 7 | sending | send | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 searching | conj |
| 8 | applications | application | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 sending | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 dozens | punct |
| 10 | often | often | ADV | _ | 11 dozens | advmod |
| 11 | dozens | dozen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 searching | obl |
| 12 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 13 getting | mark |
| 13 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 searching | advcl |
| 14 | anywhere | anywhere | ADV | PronType=Ind | 13 getting | advmod |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 get | punct |
| 16 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 get | nsubj |
| 17 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 means | parataxis |
| 18 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 19 reply | det |
| 19 | reply | reply | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 get | obj |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 all | case |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 reply | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Job hunting | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | search not said to happen | gerund | Job hunting not said here | adverts | dozens obl | vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent advert=Location | |||
| 3 | send | gerund | Job hunting not said here | applications | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent application=Theme | ||||
| 4 | get | gerund | Job hunting not said here | anywhere property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | get | present | many | no reply | all | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent reply=Theme at all=Asset |
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:5.
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 ×2. 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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