When work goes wrong, sentence 5
"Letting people go" means a company is ending some workers' jobs, usually to cut costs; it sounds gentle but people lose their jobs.
Who acts: people, Letting, company, workers · What happens: let, go, mean, end, cut, sound · To what, where: people, jobs, costs · 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 (people, Letting, company, workers), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Letting | punct |
| 2 | Letting | let | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 means | csubj |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Letting | obj |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Letting | xcomp |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Letting | punct |
| 6 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 company | det |
| 8 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ending | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 ending | aux |
| 10 | ending | end | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 means | ccomp |
| 11 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 workers | det |
| 12 | workers | worker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 jobs | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 12 workers | case |
| 14 | jobs | job | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 ending | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 cut | punct |
| 16 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 18 cut | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 cut | mark |
| 18 | cut | cut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 ending | advcl |
| 19 | costs | cost | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 cut | obj |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 sounds | punct |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 sounds | nsubj |
| 22 | sounds | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 means | parataxis |
| 23 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 sounds | xcomp |
| 24 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 lose | cc |
| 25 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 lose | nsubj |
| 26 | lose | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 sounds | conj |
| 27 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 jobs | nmod:poss |
| 28 | jobs | job | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 lose | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 means | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let in a quote | gerund | people | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | go in a quote | infinitive | people not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | mean | present | Letting | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | end | present · progressive | a company | some workers's jobs | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality job=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | cut | to-infinitive | a company not said here | costs | usually property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset cost=Product | |||
| 6 | sound | present | company | gentle property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 7 | lose | present | people | workers's jobs | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Eventuality | ||||
| 8 | job | some workers | nom job «act intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 9 | job | workers = worker | 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:5.
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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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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