Soft words for hard things: money and poverty and work, firing and the economy, sentence 17
"Made redundant" (UK) means losing your job because the post was cut.
Who acts: your · What happens: make, mean, lose, cut, job · To what, where: job, post · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (your), 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 Made | punct |
| 2 | Made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 means | nsubj |
| 3 | redundant | redundant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Made | xcomp |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Made | punct |
| 5 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 6 UK | punct |
| 6 | UK | UK | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Made | dep |
| 7 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 6 UK | punct |
| 8 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | losing | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 means | ccomp |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 job | nmod:poss |
| 11 | job | job | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 losing | obj |
| 12 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 16 cut | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 post | det |
| 14 | post | post | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 cut | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 cut | aux:pass |
| 16 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 losing | advcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 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 | make in a quote | participle | redundant property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||||
| 2 | mean | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | lose | gerund | your job | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | cut | past · passive | the post | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | |||||
| 5 | job | your | 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:euphemisms:020-debt-and-jobs.lesson:17.
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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