Money, work and the big choices, sentence 16

University means studying a subject for a few years and often leaves a big loan; an apprenticeship means learning a job at work while being paid.

Who acts: University, apprenticeship · What happens: mean, study, leave, learn, pay · To what, where: subject, big loan, job, work · 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 (University, apprenticeship), 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	University	University	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	studying	study	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 means	xcomp
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 subject	det
5	subject	subject	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 studying	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	9 years	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 years	det
8	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 years	amod
9	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 studying	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 leaves	cc
11	often	often	ADV	_	12 leaves	advmod
12	leaves	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 means	conj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 loan	det
14	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 loan	amod
15	loan	loan	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 leaves	obj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 means	punct
17	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 apprenticeship	det
18	apprenticeship	apprenticeship	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 means	nsubj
19	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 means	parataxis
20	learning	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 means	ccomp
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 job	det
22	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 learning	obj
23	at	at	ADP	_	24 work	case
24	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 learning	obl
25	while	while	SCONJ	_	27 paid	mark
26	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 paid	aux:pass
27	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 learning	advcl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	University					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	study not said to happen	gerund	University not said here	a subject		year		vn learn-14-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Topic
3	leave	present	University not said here	a big loan			often property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent loan=Theme
4	mean	present	a apprenticeship					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	learn	gerund		a job	work			vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Topic
6	pay	gerund · passive						vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»

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: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): 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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