The school fair, famous companies and being your own boss, sentence 3
Being your own boss means freedom, but also risk: no boss shouting, but no sick pay, long hours, and often a loss in the first year before any profit comes.
Who acts: loss · What happens: be, mean, come · To what, where: own boss, freedom · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The school fair, famous companies and being your own boss» of the money 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 (loss), 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 | Being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 boss | cop |
| 2 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 boss | nmod:poss |
| 3 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 boss | amod |
| 4 | boss | boss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 means | csubj |
| 5 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | freedom | freedom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 means | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 risk | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 risk | cc |
| 9 | also | also | ADV | _ | 10 risk | advmod |
| 10 | risk | risk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 freedom | conj |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 shouting | punct |
| 12 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 boss | det |
| 13 | boss | boss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 shouting | compound |
| 14 | shouting | shouting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 risk | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 pay | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 pay | cc |
| 17 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 19 pay | det |
| 18 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 pay | amod |
| 19 | pay | pay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 means | parataxis |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 hours | punct |
| 21 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 hours | amod |
| 22 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 pay | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 comes | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 comes | cc |
| 25 | often | often | ADV | _ | 27 loss | advmod |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 loss | det |
| 27 | loss | loss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 comes | nsubj |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 year | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 year | det |
| 30 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 31 year | amod |
| 31 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 loss | nmod |
| 32 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 35 comes | mark |
| 33 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 34 profit | det |
| 34 | profit | profit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 comes | nsubj |
| 35 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 means | conj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | gerund | your own boss | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | mean | present | freedom but risk | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent freedom=Topic | |||||
| 3 | come | present | a loss in the first year | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:money:032-the-school-fair-famous-companies-and-being-your-own-boss.lesson:3.
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 ×5. 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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