Unemployment: when jobs are lost, sentence 16
Some say people out of work should get more help; others say too much help means less need to find work; both want people to be okay but disagree on how.
Who acts: Some, people, others, much help, both · What happens: say, get, mean, find, want, be · To what, where: more help, less need, work, people · 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 (Some, people, others, much help), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 say | nsubj |
| 2 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 get | nsubj |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 work | case |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 work | case |
| 6 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 people | nmod |
| 7 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 get | aux |
| 8 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 say | ccomp |
| 9 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 help | amod |
| 10 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 get | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 say | punct |
| 12 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 say | nsubj |
| 13 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 say | parataxis |
| 14 | too | too | ADV | _ | 15 much | advmod |
| 15 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 help | amod |
| 16 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 means | nsubj |
| 17 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 say | ccomp |
| 18 | less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 19 need | amod |
| 19 | need | need | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 means | obj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 find | mark |
| 21 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 need | acl |
| 22 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 find | obj |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 want | punct |
| 24 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 want | nsubj |
| 25 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 say | parataxis |
| 26 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 want | obj |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 okay | mark |
| 28 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 29 okay | cop |
| 29 | okay | okay | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 want | xcomp |
| 30 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 31 disagree | cc |
| 31 | disagree | disagree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 want | conj |
| 32 | on | on | ADP | _ | 33 how | case |
| 33 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 31 disagree | advmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 say | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Some | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | get | should | people out work | more help | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer help=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present | others | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | mean | present | much help | less need | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent need=Topic | ||||
| 5 | find | to-infinitive | much help not said here | work | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Topic | ||||
| 6 | want | present | both | people | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot people=Theme | ||||
| 7 | is not said to happen | to-infinitive | people not said here | okay property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | disagree | present | both not said here | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: 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:money:035-unemployment-when-jobs-are-lost.lesson:16.
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 ×1, 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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