When work goes wrong, sentence 6
Redundancy means the job itself is being got rid of, not that the person did anything wrong; people who have worked there a while often get some money to help them.
Who acts: Redundancy, person, people, money · What happens: mean, get, not do, work, help · To what, where: job, anything, money, people · 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 (Redundancy, person, people, money), 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 | Redundancy | redundancy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 means | nsubj |
| 2 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 job | det |
| 4 | job | job | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 got | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 4 job | nmod |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 got | aux |
| 7 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 got | aux:pass |
| 8 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 means | ccomp |
| 9 | rid | rid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 got | xcomp |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 rid | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 did | punct |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 did | advmod |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 did | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 person | det |
| 15 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 did | nsubj |
| 16 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 means | conj |
| 17 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 16 did | obj |
| 18 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 anything | amod |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 get | punct |
| 20 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 get | nsubj |
| 21 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 worked | nsubj |
| 22 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 worked | aux |
| 23 | worked | work | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 people | acl:relcl |
| 24 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 worked | advmod |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 while | det |
| 26 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 worked | obl:unmarked |
| 27 | often | often | ADV | _ | 28 get | advmod |
| 28 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 means | parataxis |
| 29 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 30 money | det |
| 30 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 get | obj |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 help | mark |
| 32 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 get | xcomp |
| 33 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 help | obj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Redundancy | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | get | present · progressive · passive | the job Redundancy | rid property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | not do | past | the person | anything | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | work | present · perfect | people | there | while | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 5 | get | present | people | some money | often property | tree rules | |||
| 6 | help | to-infinitive | some money not said here | people | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary |
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:6.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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