Soft words for hard things: work, firing and the economy and business and advertising, sentence 11
"A career-limiting move" is a joking name for a mistake that could get you fired.
Who acts: career-limiting move, mistake, you · What happens: joke, be, get, fire · To what, where: joking name, you
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 (career-limiting move, mistake, you), 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 | _ | 4 move | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 move | det |
| 3 | career-limiting | career-limiting | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 move | amod |
| 4 | move | move | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 name | nsubj |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 move | punct |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 name | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 name | det |
| 8 | joking | joke | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 name | amod |
| 9 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 mistake | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 mistake | det |
| 12 | mistake | mistake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 name | nmod |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 get | nsubj |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 get | aux |
| 15 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 mistake | acl:relcl |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 get | obj |
| 17 | fired | fire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 get | xcomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 name | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | joke speech: other | gerund | vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is a | present | a career-limiting move | a joking name | for a mistake | tree rules | |||
| 3 | get | could | a mistake | you | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | fire | participle | you not said here | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: 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: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): no change. 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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