Unemployment: when jobs are lost, sentence 17
Losing a job is not a sign that someone is lazy or bad; most job losses come from changes the worker cannot control.
Who acts: Losing, someone, most job losses, worker · What happens: lose, not be, be, come, not control · To what, where: job, sign, changes
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 (Losing, someone, most job losses, worker), 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 | Losing | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 sign | csubj |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 job | det |
| 3 | job | job | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Losing | obj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 sign | cop |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 sign | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 sign | det |
| 7 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 lazy | mark |
| 9 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 11 lazy | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 lazy | cop |
| 11 | lazy | lazy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 sign | acl |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 bad | cc |
| 13 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 lazy | conj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 come | punct |
| 15 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 17 losses | amod |
| 16 | job | job | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 losses | compound |
| 17 | losses | loss | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 come | nsubj |
| 18 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 sign | parataxis |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 changes | case |
| 20 | changes | change | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 come | obl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 worker | det |
| 22 | worker | worker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 control | nsubj |
| 23 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 control | aux |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 control | advmod |
| 25 | control | control | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 changes | acl:relcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 sign | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | gerund | a job | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | not is a | present | Losing | a sign | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | present | someone | a sign not said here | lazy property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | be | someone not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | come | present | most job losses | changes | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from change=Initial_Location | ||||
| 6 | not control | can | the worker | changes not said here | vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent change=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:035-unemployment-when-jobs-are-lost.lesson:17.
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. 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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