Unemployment: when jobs are lost, sentence 2
The economy goes up and down like a slow wave: in a boom jobs are easy to find, and in a recession the country makes and spends less for a while and jobs get scarcer.
Who acts: economy, boom jobs, country, jobs · What happens: go up, be, find, make, spend, get · To what, where: recession
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 (economy, boom jobs, country, jobs), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 economy | det |
| 2 | economy | economy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 goes | nsubj |
| 3 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADV | _ | 3 goes | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 down | cc |
| 6 | down | down | ADV | _ | 4 up | conj |
| 7 | like | like | ADP | _ | 10 wave | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 wave | det |
| 9 | slow | slow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 wave | amod |
| 10 | wave | wave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 goes | obl |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 easy | punct |
| 12 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 17 easy | mark |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 jobs | det |
| 14 | boom | boom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 jobs | compound |
| 15 | jobs | job | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 easy | nsubj |
| 16 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 easy | cop |
| 17 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 goes | parataxis |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 find | mark |
| 19 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 easy | ccomp |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 makes | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 makes | cc |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 recession | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 recession | det |
| 24 | recession | recession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 makes | obl |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 country | det |
| 26 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 makes | nsubj |
| 27 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 easy | conj |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 spends | cc |
| 29 | spends | spend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 makes | conj |
| 30 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 29 spends | advmod |
| 31 | for | for | ADP | _ | 33 while | case |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 while | det |
| 33 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 spends | obl |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 get | cc |
| 35 | jobs | job | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 get | nsubj |
| 36 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 easy | conj |
| 37 | scarcer | scarce | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 36 get | xcomp |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 goes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go up | present | the economy | like a slow wave | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | is | present | a boom jobs | easy property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | find | to-infinitive | a boom jobs not said here | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | make | present | the country | a recession | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 5 | spend | present | the country not said here | while | less property | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 6 | get | present | jobs | scarce property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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:2.
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 ×1, 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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