Unemployment: when jobs are lost, sentence 1
Picture the news saying a big factory is closing and 500 people will lose their jobs: if each earned £500 a week, the town loses 500 × £500 = £250,000 of spending every week, so local shops and cafés suffer too.
Who acts: you, big factory, 500 people, each, town, local shops · What happens: picture, say, close, lose, earn, suffer · To what, where: news, jobs, 500 × · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Unemployment: when jobs are lost» 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 (you, big factory, 500 people, each), 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 | Picture | picture | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 news | det |
| 3 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Picture | obj |
| 4 | saying | say | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Picture | xcomp |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 factory | det |
| 6 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 factory | amod |
| 7 | factory | factory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 closing | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 closing | aux |
| 9 | closing | close | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 saying | ccomp |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 lose | cc |
| 11 | 500 | 500 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 people | nummod |
| 12 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 lose | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 lose | aux |
| 14 | lose | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 closing | conj |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 jobs | nmod:poss |
| 16 | jobs | job | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 lose | obj |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 earned | punct |
| 18 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 20 earned | mark |
| 19 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 earned | nsubj |
| 20 | earned | earn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 1 Picture | advcl |
| 21 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 20 earned | obj |
| 22 | 500 | 500 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 21 £ | nummod |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 week | det |
| 24 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 £ | obl:unmarked |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 loses | punct |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 town | det |
| 27 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 loses | nsubj |
| 28 | loses | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 earned | conj |
| 29 | 500 | 500 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 30 × | nummod |
| 30 | × | × | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 loses | obj |
| 31 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 28 loses | obj |
| 32 | 500 | 500 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 31 £ | nummod |
| 33 | = | = | SYM | _ | 34 £ | case |
| 34 | £ | £ | X | _ | 31 £ | conj |
| 35 | 250,000 | 250,000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 34 £ | flat |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 spending | case |
| 37 | spending | spending | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 £ | nmod |
| 38 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 39 week | det |
| 39 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 spending | obj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 suffer | punct |
| 41 | so | so | ADV | _ | 46 suffer | advmod |
| 42 | local | local | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 shops | amod |
| 43 | shops | shop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 46 suffer | nsubj |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 cafés | cc |
| 45 | cafés | café | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 shops | conj |
| 46 | suffer | suffer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Picture | conj |
| 47 | too | too | ADV | _ | 46 suffer | advmod |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Picture | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | picture | imperative | you not said here | the news | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent news=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | gerund | you not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | close | present · progressive | a big factory | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | lose | future | 500 people | people's jobs | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | earn a condition, not said to happen | participle | each | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent £=Theme | |||||
| 6 | lose | present | the town | 500 × | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | suffer | present | local shops and cafés | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 8 | job | people | nom job «act intransitive»: poss=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:money:035-unemployment-when-jobs-are-lost.lesson:1.
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): R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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