Soft words for hard things: work, firing and the economy and business and advertising, sentence 10

"On the bench" means a consultant (a hired expert who works on projects for other firms) has no project to work on.

Who acts: hired expert, consultant · What happens: mean, hire, work, have, work on · To what, where: bench, project · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: work, firing and the economy and business and advertising» 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 (hired expert, consultant), 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	_	6 means	punct
2	On	on	ADP	_	4 bench	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bench	det
4	bench	bench	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 means	obl
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 bench	punct
6	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 consultant	det
8	consultant	consultant	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 has	nsubj
9	(	(	PUNCT	_	12 expert	punct
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 expert	det
11	hired	hire	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 expert	amod
12	expert	expert	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 consultant	appos
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 works	nsubj
14	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 expert	acl:relcl
15	on	on	ADP	_	16 projects	case
16	projects	project	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 works	obl
17	for	for	ADP	_	19 firms	case
18	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 firms	amod
19	firms	firm	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 projects	nmod
20	)	)	PUNCT	_	12 expert	punct
21	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 means	ccomp
22	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	23 project	det
23	project	project	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 has	obj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 work	mark
25	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 project	acl
26	on	on	ADP	_	25 work	compound:prt
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 means	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	mean	present			the bench		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	hire	participle					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	work	present	a hired expert			on projects for other firms	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on project=Theme
4	have	present	a consultant	no project			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent project=Patient
5	work on	to-infinitive	a consultant not said here	no project not said here			vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=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:022-jobs-shops-and-estate-agents.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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