Money, work and the big choices, sentence 15

Choosing a job means thinking about what you enjoy, what you're good at and what pays enough; many adults change jobs or careers more than once.

Who acts: Choosing, you, many adults · What happens: choose, mean, think, enjoy, be, pay · To what, where: job, jobs · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Money, work and the big choices» 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 (Choosing, you, many adults), 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	Choosing	choose	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 means	csubj
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 job	det
3	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Choosing	obj
4	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	thinking	think	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 means	xcomp
6	about	about	SCONJ	_	9 enjoy	mark
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 enjoy	obj
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 enjoy	nsubj
9	enjoy	enjoy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 thinking	ccomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 enjoy	punct
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 good	obl
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 good	nsubj
13	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 good	cop
14	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 enjoy	conj
15	at	at	ADP	_	11 what	case
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 pays	cc
17	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	18 pays	nsubj
18	pays	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 good	advcl
19	enough	enough	ADV	_	18 pays	advmod
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 change	punct
21	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 adults	amod
22	adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 change	nsubj
23	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 pays	conj
24	jobs	job	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 change	obj
25	or	or	CCONJ	_	26 careers	cc
26	careers	career	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 jobs	conj
27	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	29 once	advmod
28	than	than	ADP	_	29 once	case
29	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	23 change	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	choose	gerund		a job		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Theme
2	mean	present	Choosing			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	think speech: other not said to happen	gerund	Choosing not said here			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	enjoy	present	you			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
5	is	present	you		good property	tree rules
6	pay	present			enough property	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	change	infinitive	many adults	jobs or careers		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Patient

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:039-money-work-and-the-big-choices.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, R6-punct-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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