When work goes wrong, sentence 11

One worker alone has little power, but many together are much harder to ignore.

Who acts: One worker, many · What happens: have, be, ignore · To what, where: little power

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 (One worker, many), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 worker	nummod
2	worker	worker	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 has	nsubj
3	alone	alone	ADV	_	2 worker	advmod
4	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 power	amod
6	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 has	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 harder	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 harder	cc
9	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 harder	nsubj
10	together	together	ADV	_	9 many	advmod
11	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 harder	cop
12	much	much	ADV	_	13 harder	advmod
13	harder	hard	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 has	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 ignore	mark
15	ignore	ignore	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 harder	xcomp
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 has	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	One worker	little power		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient
2	is	present	many		hard property	tree rules
3	ignore	to-infinitive	many not said here			vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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:11.

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. 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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