Soft words for hard things: work, firing and the economy and business and advertising, sentence 12
"Efficiency gains" often means fewer staff doing the same work.
Who acts: Efficiency gains, fewer staff · What happens: mean, do · To what, where: fewer staff, same work
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 (Efficiency gains, fewer staff), 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 gains | punct |
| 2 | Efficiency | efficiency | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gains | compound |
| 3 | gains | gain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 means | nsubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 gains | punct |
| 5 | often | often | ADV | _ | 6 means | advmod |
| 6 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | fewer | few | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 staff | amod |
| 8 | staff | staff | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 means | obj |
| 9 | doing | do | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 staff | acl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 work | det |
| 11 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 work | amod |
| 12 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 doing | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 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 | Efficiency gains | fewer staff | often property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent staff=Topic | |||
| 2 | do | gerund | fewer staff not said here | the same work | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality |
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:12.
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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