When work goes wrong, sentence 12

A strike is when workers agree together to stop working to push their employer about pay or conditions; they are not paid while on strike.

Who acts: strike · What happens: be, stop, work, push, not pay · To what, where: employer, workers · 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 (strike), 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	2 strike	det
2	strike	strike	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 agree	nsubj:outer
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 agree	cop
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 agree	advmod
5	workers	worker	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 agree	nsubj
6	agree	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	together	together	ADV	_	6 agree	advmod
8	to	to	PART	_	9 stop	mark
9	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 agree	advcl
10	working	work	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 stop	xcomp
11	to	to	PART	_	12 push	mark
12	push	push	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 working	advcl
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 employer	nmod:poss
14	employer	employer	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 push	obj
15	about	about	ADP	_	16 pay	case
16	pay	pay	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 push	obl
17	or	or	CCONJ	_	18 conditions	cc
18	conditions	condition	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 pay	conj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 paid	punct
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 paid	nsubj:pass
21	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 paid	aux
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 paid	advmod
23	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 agree	ccomp
24	while	while	SCONJ	_	26 strike	mark
25	on	on	ADP	_	26 strike	case
26	strike	strike	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 paid	advcl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 agree	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	be speech: agree	present	a strike		agree, together property	tree rules
2	stop	to-infinitive	a strike not said here			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
3	work	gerund	a strike not said here			vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	push	to-infinitive	a strike not said here	workers's employer	about pay or conditions	vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent employer=Theme about pay=Trajectory
5	not pay	present · passive		workers = worker		vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset

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:12.

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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