Soft words for hard things: work, firing and the economy and business and advertising, sentence 6
"Associate" often means an ordinary, low-paid employee, especially in US shops.
Who acts: Associate · What happens: mean, pay · To what, where: ordinary low paid employee
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 (Associate), 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 | _ | 2 Associate | punct |
| 2 | Associate | associate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 means | nsubj |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Associate | punct |
| 4 | often | often | ADV | _ | 5 means | advmod |
| 5 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 employee | det |
| 7 | ordinary | ordinary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 employee | amod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 ordinary | punct |
| 9 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 employee | amod |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 low | punct |
| 11 | paid | pay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 employee | amod |
| 12 | employee | employee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 means | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 shops | punct |
| 14 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 17 shops | advmod |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 shops | case |
| 16 | US | US | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 shops | compound |
| 17 | shops | shop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 means | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 means | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Associate | a ordinary low paid employee | in US shops; often property | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot employee=Theme in shop=Attribute | |||
| 2 | pay | participle | vn pay-68-1 «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:6.
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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