Soft words for hard things: money and poverty and work, firing and the economy, sentence 3
When a boss is forced out, the press release often says he is leaving "to spend more time with family".
Who acts: press release, release · What happens: force out, say, leave, spend · To what, where: boss · 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 (press release, release), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 forced | mark |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 boss | det |
| 3 | boss | boss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 forced | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 forced | aux:pass |
| 5 | forced | force | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 says | advcl |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 forced | compound:prt |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 says | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 release | det |
| 9 | press | press | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 release | compound |
| 10 | release | release | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 says | nsubj |
| 11 | often | often | ADV | _ | 12 says | advmod |
| 12 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 leaving | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 leaving | aux |
| 15 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 says | ccomp |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 spend | punct |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 spend | mark |
| 18 | spend | spend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 leaving | xcomp |
| 19 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 20 time | amod |
| 20 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 spend | obj |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 family | case |
| 22 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 spend | obl |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 spend | punct |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 says | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | force out | present · passive | a boss | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | the press release | often property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | leave | present · progressive | release | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | spend in a quote | to-infinitive | release not said here | time | with family | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: 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:3.
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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×3. 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.
See the release 0.4.
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