Soft words for hard things: work, firing and the economy and business and advertising, sentence 9
"Economically inactive" means not working and not looking for work (UK official language).
Who acts: inactive · What happens: mean, not work, not look
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 (inactive), 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 inactive | punct |
| 2 | Economically | economically | ADV | _ | 3 inactive | advmod |
| 3 | inactive | inactive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 means | nsubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 inactive | punct |
| 5 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 working | advmod |
| 7 | working | work | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 means | xcomp |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 looking | cc |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 looking | advmod |
| 10 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 working | conj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 work | case |
| 12 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 looking | obl |
| 13 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 16 language | punct |
| 14 | UK | UK | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 language | compound |
| 15 | official | official | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 language | amod |
| 16 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 work | appos |
| 17 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 16 language | punct |
| 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 | inactive | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not work not said to happen | gerund | inactive not said here | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not look | gerund | inactive not said here | for work | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for work=Theme |
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:9.
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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