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	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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