Soft words for hard things: work, firing and the economy, sentence 23
"Independent contractor" means a worker without the rights and benefits of an employee, such as sick pay, holiday pay and a safe job (US).
Who acts: Independent contractor · What happens: mean · To what, where: worker
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 (Independent contractor), 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 contractor | punct |
| 2 | Independent | independent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 contractor | amod |
| 3 | contractor | contractor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 means | nsubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 contractor | punct |
| 5 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 worker | det |
| 7 | worker | worker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 means | obj |
| 8 | without | without | ADP | _ | 10 rights | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 rights | det |
| 10 | rights | right | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 worker | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 benefits | cc |
| 12 | benefits | benefit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 rights | conj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 employee | case |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 employee | det |
| 15 | employee | employee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 rights | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 pay | punct |
| 17 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 20 pay | case |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 such | fixed |
| 19 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 pay | amod |
| 20 | pay | pay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 rights | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 pay | punct |
| 22 | holiday | holiday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 pay | compound |
| 23 | pay | pay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 pay | conj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 job | cc |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 job | det |
| 26 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 job | amod |
| 27 | job | job | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 pay | conj |
| 28 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 29 US | punct |
| 29 | US | US | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 job | appos |
| 30 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 29 US | punct |
| 31 | . | . | 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 | Independent contractor | a worker | without the rights of a employee such sick pay and holiday pay and a safe job and benefits | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent worker=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:23.
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 ×2, R7-rel-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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