When work goes wrong, sentence 0
Sometimes work goes wrong: a firm cuts jobs, a factory closes, someone is sacked, workers go on strike, or a grown-up is simply worn out.
Who acts: work, firm, factory, workers · What happens: go, cut, close, sack, grow, wear out · To what, where: jobs, someone, strike, grown up
This is a sentence of the lesson «When work goes wrong» 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 (work, firm, factory, workers), 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 | Sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 3 goes | advmod |
| 2 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 goes | nsubj |
| 3 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 goes | xcomp |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 cuts | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 firm | det |
| 7 | firm | firm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cuts | nsubj |
| 8 | cuts | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 goes | parataxis |
| 9 | jobs | job | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 cuts | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 closes | punct |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 factory | det |
| 12 | factory | factory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 closes | nsubj |
| 13 | closes | close | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 cuts | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sacked | punct |
| 15 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 17 sacked | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 sacked | aux:pass |
| 17 | sacked | sack | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 closes | xcomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 go | punct |
| 19 | workers | worker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 go | nsubj |
| 20 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 closes | conj |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 strike | case |
| 22 | strike | strike | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 go | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 worn | punct |
| 24 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 31 worn | cc |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 up | det |
| 26 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 up | amod |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 grown | punct |
| 28 | up | up | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 worn | nsubj:pass |
| 29 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 worn | aux:pass |
| 30 | simply | simply | ADV | _ | 31 worn | advmod |
| 31 | worn | wear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 goes | conj |
| 32 | out | out | ADP | _ | 31 worn | compound:prt |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 goes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | work | sometimes, wrong property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | cut | present | a firm | jobs | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset job=Product | ||||
| 3 | close | present | a factory | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | sack | present · passive | someone | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 5 | go | present | workers | strike | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on strike=Location | ||||
| 6 | grow | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 7 | wear out | present · passive | a grown up | simply property | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: subject=Source |
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:004-when-work-goes-wrong.lesson:0.
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): 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.
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