Soft words for hard things: work, firing and the economy, sentence 2
A company that sacks two hundred people may announce "a headcount reduction", as if it only changed a number on a chart.
Who acts: company · What happens: sack, announce, change · To what, where: hundred people, headcount reduction, number, chart
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 (company), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 company | det |
| 2 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 announce | nsubj |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 sacks | nsubj |
| 4 | sacks | sack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 company | acl:relcl |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 hundred | compound |
| 6 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 people | nummod |
| 7 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sacks | obj |
| 8 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 announce | aux |
| 9 | announce | announce | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 reduction | punct |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 reduction | det |
| 12 | headcount | headcount | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 reduction | compound |
| 13 | reduction | reduction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 announce | obj |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 reduction | punct |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 changed | punct |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 changed | mark |
| 17 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 20 changed | mark |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 changed | nsubj |
| 19 | only | only | ADV | _ | 20 changed | advmod |
| 20 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 announce | advcl |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 number | det |
| 22 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 changed | obj |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 chart | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 chart | det |
| 25 | chart | chart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 changed | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 announce | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sack | present | a company | hundred people | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme | ||||
| 2 | announce speech: other | may | a company | a headcount reduction | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reduction=Theme | ||||
| 3 | change | past | company | a number | a chart | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Patient |
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:2.
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): 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.
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