Soft words for hard things: money and poverty and work, firing and the economy, sentence 14
"Rightsizing" is spin for cutting jobs.
Who acts: Rightsizing, spin · What happens: be, cut · To what, where: spin, jobs
This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: money and poverty and work, firing and the economy» of the euphemisms 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 (Rightsizing, spin), 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 Rightsizing | punct |
| 2 | Rightsizing | rightsize | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 spin | nsubj |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Rightsizing | punct |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 spin | cop |
| 5 | spin | spin | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 7 cutting | mark |
| 7 | cutting | cut | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 spin | acl |
| 8 | jobs | job | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 cutting | obj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 spin | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Rightsizing | spin | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cut | gerund | spin not said here | jobs | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset job=Product |
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:euphemisms:020-debt-and-jobs.lesson:14.
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): R8-pos-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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