Unemployment: when jobs are lost, sentence 4
Looking for work can be long and upsetting, and family and friends really help; how much the government should help people out of work is something grown-ups disagree about, though both sides want people to be okay.
Who acts: Looking, family, government, grown ups, sides, people · What happens: look, be, help, grow, disagree, want · To what, where: much, work, something, people
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 (Looking, family, government, grown ups), 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 | Looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 long | csubj |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 3 work | case |
| 3 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Looking | obl |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 long | aux |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 long | cop |
| 6 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 disagree | conj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 upsetting | cc |
| 8 | upsetting | upsetting | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 long | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 help | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 help | cc |
| 11 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 help | nsubj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 friends | cc |
| 13 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 family | conj |
| 14 | really | really | ADV | _ | 15 help | advmod |
| 15 | help | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 long | conj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 help | punct |
| 17 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 much | advmod |
| 18 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 help | obj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 government | det |
| 20 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 help | nsubj |
| 21 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 help | aux |
| 22 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 long | conj |
| 23 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 help | obj |
| 24 | out | out | ADP | _ | 26 work | case |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 work | case |
| 26 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 help | obl |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 something | cop |
| 28 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 32 disagree | obl |
| 29 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 ups | amod |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 grown | punct |
| 31 | ups | up | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 disagree | nsubj |
| 32 | disagree | disagree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 33 | about | about | ADV | _ | 32 disagree | advmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 want | punct |
| 35 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 38 want | mark |
| 36 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 37 sides | det |
| 37 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 want | nsubj |
| 38 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 disagree | advcl |
| 39 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 want | obj |
| 40 | to | to | PART | _ | 42 okay | mark |
| 41 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 42 okay | cop |
| 42 | okay | okay | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 want | xcomp |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 long | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | gerund | for work | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for work=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | can | Looking | long property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | Looking not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | help | present | family and friends | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | help | should | the government | much | work | tree rules | |||
| 6 | is a | present | something | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | grow | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 8 | disagree | present | grown ups | about property | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 9 | want | present | both sides | people | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot people=Theme | ||||
| 10 | is not said to happen | to-infinitive | people not said here | okay property | tree rules |
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:4.
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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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