Soft words for hard things: work, firing and the economy and business and advertising, sentence 7
"Underemployed" means working fewer hours than you want, or in a job below your skills.
Who acts: Underemployed, you · What happens: mean, work, want · 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 (Underemployed, 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 | _ | 2 Underemployed | punct |
| 2 | Underemployed | Underemployed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 means | nsubj |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Underemployed | punct |
| 4 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | working | work | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 means | ccomp |
| 6 | fewer | few | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 hours | amod |
| 7 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 working | obj |
| 8 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 10 want | mark |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 want | nsubj |
| 10 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 hours | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 job | punct |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 job | cc |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 job | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 job | det |
| 15 | job | job | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 means | conj |
| 16 | below | below | ADP | _ | 18 skills | case |
| 17 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 skills | nmod:poss |
| 18 | skills | skill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 job | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 means | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- other
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Underemployed | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | work | gerund | hour | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | want | present | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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:7.
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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