Soft words for hard things: work, firing and the economy, sentence 10
"Outplacement" means help given to fired workers to find new jobs.
Who acts: Outplacement · What happens: mean, give, fire, find · To what, where: help, fired workers, new jobs
This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: 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 (Outplacement), 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 Outplacement | punct |
| 2 | Outplacement | outplacement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 means | nsubj |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Outplacement | punct |
| 4 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 means | obj |
| 6 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 help | acl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 workers | case |
| 8 | fired | fire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 workers | amod |
| 9 | workers | worker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 given | obl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 find | mark |
| 11 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 given | advcl |
| 12 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 jobs | amod |
| 13 | jobs | job | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 find | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 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 | Outplacement | help | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent help=Topic | ||||
| 2 | give | participle | help not said here | fired workers | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to worker=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | fire | participle | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | find | to-infinitive | new jobs | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Topic |
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:021-work-firing-and-the-economy.lesson:10.
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 ×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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