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title: Office politics is the unofficial side of work: who gets on with who… — A day at a grown-up's job · tree and pragmatics
description: Office politics is the unofficial side of work: who gets on with whom, who gets the credit and who gets invited to the important meetings. Who acts: Office politics, unofficial side. A sentence of the lesson «A day at a grown-up's job» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its depen
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# A day at a grown-up's job, sentence 11

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Office politics is the unofficial side of work: who gets on with whom, who gets the credit and who gets invited to the important meetings.

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**Who acts:** Office politics, unofficial side · **What happens:** be, get on, get, invite · **To what, where:** unofficial side, credit

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This is a sentence of the lesson «A day at a grown-up's job» of the adult life 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 (Office politics, unofficial side), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:adult-life:001-a-day-at-a-grown-ups-job.lesson:11
# text = Office politics is the unofficial side of work: who gets on with whom, who gets the credit and who gets invited to the important meetings.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = adult-life
# lesson = 001-a-day-at-a-grown-ups-job.lesson
# annotation = 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
1	Office	office	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	politics	politics	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	unofficial	unofficial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	credit	credit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:nsubj
22	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
23	invited	invite	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	xcomp	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	important	important	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	meetings	meeting	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Office politics | the unofficial side |  |  |  | of work | tree rules |
| 2 | **get on** | present | the unofficial side |  |  |  |  | with the unofficial side | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **get** | present |  | the credit |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer credit=Stimulus |
| 4 | **get** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 5 | **invite** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | to the important meetings | vn promote-102 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |

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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.

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**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. **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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