When work goes wrong, sentence 10
A trade union is a group of workers who each pay a small fee so they can talk to bosses together about pay and conditions.
Who acts: trade union, workers, unions · What happens: be, pay, talk · To what, where: group, small fee
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 (trade union, workers, unions), 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 union | det |
| 2 | trade | trade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 union | compound |
| 3 | union | union | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 group | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 group | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 group | det |
| 6 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 workers | case |
| 8 | workers | worker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 group | nmod |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 pay | nsubj |
| 10 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 pay | advmod |
| 11 | pay | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 workers | acl:relcl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 fee | det |
| 13 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 fee | amod |
| 14 | fee | fee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 pay | obj |
| 15 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 18 talk | mark |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 talk | nsubj |
| 17 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 talk | aux |
| 18 | talk | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 pay | advcl |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 bosses | case |
| 20 | bosses | boss | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 talk | obl |
| 21 | together | together | ADV | _ | 18 talk | advmod |
| 22 | about | about | ADP | _ | 23 pay | case |
| 23 | pay | pay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 talk | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 conditions | cc |
| 25 | conditions | condition | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 pay | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 group | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a trade union | a group | of workers | tree rules | |||
| 2 | pay | present | workers | a small fee | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fee=Asset | ||||
| 3 | talk | can | unions = union | to bosses; about pay and conditions; together property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.topic»: agent=Agent to boss=Co-Agent about pay=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:10.
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): no change. 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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