Soft words for hard things: money and poverty and work, firing and the economy, sentence 15
"Restructuring" means reorganising a company, usually with job cuts.
Who acts: Restructuring · What happens: mean, reorganise · To what, where: company
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 (Restructuring), 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 Restructuring | punct |
| 2 | Restructuring | restructuring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 means | nsubj |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Restructuring | punct |
| 4 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | reorganising | reorganise | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 means | xcomp |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 company | det |
| 7 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 reorganising | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 cuts | punct |
| 9 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 12 cuts | advmod |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 cuts | case |
| 11 | job | job | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cuts | compound |
| 12 | cuts | cut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 reorganising | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 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 | Restructuring | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | reorganise not said to happen | gerund | Restructuring not said here | a company | with job cuts | tree rules |
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:15.
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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