Soft words for hard things: work, firing and the economy, sentence 11
"Garden leave" means being paid to stay at home, away from work, until the notice period ends; the notice period is the last few weeks of a job after you have been told it will end (UK).
Who acts: Garden leave, notice period, period · What happens: mean, pay, stay, end, be, tell · To what, where: home, last few weeks, you · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Garden leave, notice period, period), 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 leave | punct |
| 2 | Garden | Garden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 leave | compound |
| 3 | leave | leave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 means | nsubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 leave | punct |
| 5 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 paid | aux:pass |
| 7 | paid | pay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 means | ccomp |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 stay | mark |
| 9 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 paid | xcomp |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 home | case |
| 11 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stay | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 away | punct |
| 13 | away | away | ADV | _ | 9 stay | advmod |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 work | case |
| 15 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 away | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 ends | punct |
| 17 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 21 ends | mark |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 period | det |
| 19 | notice | notice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 period | compound |
| 20 | period | period | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 ends | nsubj |
| 21 | ends | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 stay | advcl |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 weeks | punct |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 period | det |
| 24 | notice | notice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 period | compound |
| 25 | period | period | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 weeks | nsubj |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 weeks | cop |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 weeks | det |
| 28 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 weeks | amod |
| 29 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 weeks | amod |
| 30 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 means | parataxis |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 job | case |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 job | det |
| 33 | job | job | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 weeks | nmod |
| 34 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 38 told | mark |
| 35 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 38 told | nsubj:pass |
| 36 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 told | aux |
| 37 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 38 told | aux:pass |
| 38 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 weeks | advcl |
| 39 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 end | nsubj |
| 40 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 41 end | aux |
| 41 | end | end | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 told | ccomp |
| 42 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 43 UK | punct |
| 43 | UK | UK | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 end | parataxis |
| 44 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 43 UK | punct |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Garden leave | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | pay | gerund · passive | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | stay | to-infinitive | home | away property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=Location | ||||
| 4 | end | present | the notice period | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | is a | present | the notice period | the last few weeks | of a job | tree rules | |||
| 6 | tell speech: assert | present · perfect · passive | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 7 | end | future | period | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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:11.
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, R7-rel-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.
See the release 0.4.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/21-work-firing-and-the-economy/11/