Soft words for hard things: money and poverty and work, firing and the economy, sentence 20
"Involuntary separation" (official US) means being fired.
Who acts: Involuntary separation · What happens: mean, fire · 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 (Involuntary separation), 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 | _ | 3 separation | punct |
| 2 | Involuntary | involuntary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 separation | amod |
| 3 | separation | separation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 means | nsubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 separation | punct |
| 5 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 7 US | punct |
| 6 | official | official | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 US | amod |
| 7 | US | US | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 separation | appos |
| 8 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 7 US | punct |
| 9 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Ger | 11 fired | aux:pass |
| 11 | fired | fire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 means | ccomp |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 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 | mean | present | Involuntary separation | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | fire | gerund · passive | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP» |
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:20.
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): R7-rel-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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