When work goes wrong, sentence 7

Being sacked or fired means losing a job because of something the person did, such as often being late or breaking rules; employers usually have to give warnings first.

Who acts: person, employers · What happens: sack, fire, mean, lose, do, be · To what, where: job, rules, warnings · 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 (person, employers), 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	Being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 sacked	aux:pass
2	sacked	sack	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 means	csubj
3	or	or	CCONJ	_	4 fired	cc
4	fired	fire	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 sacked	conj
5	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	losing	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 means	ccomp
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 job	det
8	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 losing	obj
9	because	because	ADP	_	11 something	case
10	of	of	ADP	_	9 because	fixed
11	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 losing	obl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 person	det
13	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 did	nsubj
14	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 something	acl:relcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 late	punct
16	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=SCONJ	20 late	mark
17	as	as	ADP	_	16 such	fixed
18	often	often	ADV	_	20 late	advmod
19	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 late	cop
20	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 something	amod
21	or	or	CCONJ	_	22 breaking	cc
22	breaking	break	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 late	conj
23	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 breaking	obj
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 employers	punct
25	employers	employer	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 have	nsubj
26	usually	usually	ADV	_	27 have	advmod
27	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 means	parataxis
28	to	to	PART	_	29 give	mark
29	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 have	xcomp
30	warnings	warning	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 give	obj
31	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	29 give	advmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	sack	gerund · passive				vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»
2	fire	participle				vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	mean	present				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	lose	gerund		a job	because something	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Eventuality
5	do	past	the person			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is	gerund			late, often property	tree rules
7	break	gerund		rules		vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rule=Patient
8	have	present	employers		usually property	tree rules
9	give	to-infinitive	employers not said here	warnings	first property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent warning=Theme

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:7.

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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