When work goes wrong, sentence 16

When a business closes, everyone who works there loses their job; if it was a big employer, a whole town feels it.

Who acts: business, everyone, whole town, tasks · What happens: close, work, lose, be, feel, job · To what, where: job, big employer, business

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 (business, everyone, whole town, tasks), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	4 closes	mark
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 business	det
3	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 closes	nsubj
4	closes	close	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 loses	advcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 everyone	punct
6	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	10 loses	nsubj
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 works	nsubj
8	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 everyone	acl:relcl
9	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 works	advmod
10	loses	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 job	nmod:poss
12	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 loses	obj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 loses	punct
14	if	if	SCONJ	_	19 employer	mark
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 employer	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 employer	cop
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 employer	det
18	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 employer	amod
19	employer	employer	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 feels	advcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 feels	punct
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 town	det
22	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 town	amod
23	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 feels	nsubj
24	feels	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 loses	parataxis
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 feels	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 loses	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	close	present	a business			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	work	present			there	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	lose	present	everyone	tasks's job		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Eventuality
4	is a a condition, not said to happen	past	business	a big employer		tree rules
5	feel	present	a whole town	business		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
6	job		tasks = task			nom job «act intransitive»: poss=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:16.

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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