--- title: Being short-staffed means people have left or are off sick and nobod… — A day at a grown-up's job · tree and pragmatics description: Being short-staffed means people have left or are off sick and nobody has replaced them, so the rest must cover their work too. Who acts: people, nobody, rest. 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 dependency tree and the prag --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/1-a-day-at-a-grown-ups-job/17/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Adult life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/) / [A day at a grown-up's job](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/1-a-day-at-a-grown-ups-job/) / 17 # A day at a grown-up's job, sentence 17 Being short-staffed means people have left or are off sick and nobody has replaced them, so the rest must cover their work too. **Who acts:** people, nobody, rest · **What happens:** staff, mean, leave, be, replace, cover · **To what, where:** people, work · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (people, nobody, rest), 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:17 # text = Being short-staffed means people have left or are off sick and nobody has replaced them, so the rest must cover their work too. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 aux:pass _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:cop 2 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 compound _ _ 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 4 punct _ _ 4 staffed staff VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 csubj _ _ 5 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 7 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 8 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 5 ccomp _ _ 9 or or CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 10 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 11 off off ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 12 sick sick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 conj _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 14 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 16 nsubj _ _ 15 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 replaced replace VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 conj _ _ 17 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 19 so so ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 rest rest NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 22 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 cover cover VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 parataxis _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:advcl 24 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 work work NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 too too ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **staff** | gerund · passive | | | | | | | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP» | | 2 | **mean** | present | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **leave** | present · perfect | people | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **is** | present | people *not said here* | | | | | off, sick *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **replace** | present · perfect | nobody | people | | | | | vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Co-Theme | | 6 | **cover** | must | the rest | people's work | | | | | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme work=Destination | | 7 | **work** | | people | | | | | | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:adult-life:001-a-day-at-a-grown-ups-job.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [A day at a grown-up's job, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/1-a-day-at-a-grown-ups-job/15/) - next →: [A day at a grown-up's job, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/1-a-day-at-a-grown-ups-job/18/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/1-a-day-at-a-grown-ups-job/)