Soft words for hard things: work, firing and the economy, sentence 13
"Voluntary severance" means being paid to leave one's job.
Who acts: Voluntary severance, one · What happens: mean, pay, leave, job · To what, where: job
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 (Voluntary severance, one), 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 severance | punct |
| 2 | Voluntary | voluntary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 severance | amod |
| 3 | severance | severance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 means | nsubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 severance | 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 | xcomp |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 leave | mark |
| 9 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 paid | advcl |
| 10 | one | one | PRON | Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 job | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 one | case |
| 12 | job | job | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 leave | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 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 | Voluntary severance | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | pay not said to happen | gerund · passive | Voluntary severance not said here | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP» | |||||
| 3 | leave | to-infinitive | Voluntary severance not said here | one's job | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Theme | ||||
| 4 | job | one | nom job «act intransitive»: poss=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:021-work-firing-and-the-economy.lesson:13.
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): R8-pos-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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