Finding a job and getting on, sentence 8

A job interview is a meeting where an employer asks questions to decide whom to hire; several people usually compete for one job.

Who acts: job interview, employer, several people · What happens: be, ask, decide, hire, compete · To what, where: meeting, questions · 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 (job interview, employer, several 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 interview	det
2	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 interview	compound
3	interview	interview	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 meeting	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 meeting	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 meeting	det
6	meeting	meeting	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	10 asks	advmod
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 employer	det
9	employer	employer	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 asks	nsubj
10	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 meeting	acl:relcl
11	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 asks	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 decide	mark
13	decide	decide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 asks	advcl
14	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 hire	obj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 hire	mark
16	hire	hire	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 decide	ccomp
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 compete	punct
18	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 people	amod
19	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 compete	nsubj
20	usually	usually	ADV	_	21 compete	advmod
21	compete	compete	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 meeting	parataxis
22	for	for	ADP	_	24 job	case
23	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 job	nummod
24	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 compete	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 meeting	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a job interview	a meeting		tree rules
2	ask speech: ask	present	a employer	questions		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient
3	decide	to-infinitive	a employer not said here			vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	hire not said to happen	to-infinitive				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Theme
5	compete	present	several people		for one job; usually property	vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=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:003-finding-a-job-and-getting-on.lesson:8.

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 ×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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