When work goes wrong, sentence 1

Grown-ups often use soft words for these things, like "letting people go" or "between jobs", so it is worth knowing what they really mean.

Who acts: Grown ups, people, knowing · What happens: grow, use, let, go, be, know · To what, where: soft words · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Grown ups, people, knowing), 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	Grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 ups	amod
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Grown	punct
3	ups	up	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 use	nsubj
4	often	often	ADV	_	5 use	advmod
5	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 words	amod
7	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 use	obj
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 things	case
9	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	10 things	det
10	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 use	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 letting	punct
12	like	like	SCONJ	_	14 letting	mark
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 letting	punct
14	letting	let	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 use	advcl
15	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 go	nsubj
16	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 letting	xcomp
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 letting	punct
18	or	or	CCONJ	_	21 jobs	cc
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 jobs	punct
20	between	between	ADP	_	21 jobs	case
21	jobs	job	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 letting	conj
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 jobs	punct
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 worth	punct
24	so	so	ADV	_	27 worth	advmod
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 worth	expl
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 worth	cop
27	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 use	parataxis
28	knowing	know	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 worth	csubj
29	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	32 mean	obj
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 mean	nsubj
31	really	really	ADV	_	32 mean	advmod
32	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 knowing	ccomp
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 use	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	grow	participle				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	use	present	Grown ups	soft words	for this things; often property	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent word=Theme for thing=Eventuality
3	let in a quote	gerund	Grown ups not said here			tree rules
4	go in a quote	infinitive	people			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is	present	knowing		worth property	tree rules
6	know	gerund				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
7	mean	present	people			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic

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:1.

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 ×2, 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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