Soft words for hard things: money and poverty and work, firing and the economy, sentence 21
"Pursuing other opportunities" in a company announcement usually means fired or pushed to quit.
Who acts: Pursuing · What happens: pursue, mean, fire, push, quit · To what, where: other opportunities, company announcement · 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 (Pursuing), 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 Pursuing | punct |
| 2 | Pursuing | pursue | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 means | csubj |
| 3 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 opportunities | amod |
| 4 | opportunities | opportunity | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Pursuing | obj |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Pursuing | punct |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 announcement | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 announcement | det |
| 8 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 announcement | compound |
| 9 | announcement | announcement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Pursuing | obl |
| 10 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 11 means | advmod |
| 11 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | fired | fire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 means | ccomp |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 pushed | cc |
| 14 | pushed | push | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 fired | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 quit | mark |
| 16 | quit | quit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 pushed | advcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 means | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pursue in a quote | gerund | other opportunities | a company announcement | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent opportunity=Theme in announcement=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | mean | present | Pursuing | usually property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | fire | participle | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | push | participle | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | quit | to-infinitive | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=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:21.
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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2. 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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