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title: Not every grown-up works nine to five in an office; many work shifts… — Shifts, nights and other ways of working · tree and pragmatics
description: Not every grown-up works nine to five in an office; many work shifts, nights, part-time, for themselves, or in two jobs at once. Who acts: many. A sentence of the lesson «Shifts, nights and other ways of working» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the prag
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# Shifts, nights and other ways of working, sentence 0

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Not every grown-up works nine to five in an office; many work shifts, nights, part-time, for themselves, or in two jobs at once.

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**Who acts:** many · **What happens:** grow up, not work, work · **To what, where:** nine, shifts

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Shifts, nights and other ways of working» 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 (many), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:adult-life:002-shifts-nights-and-other-ways-of-working.lesson:0
# text = Not every grown-up works nine to five in an office; many work shifts, nights, part-time, for themselves, or in two jobs at once.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = adult-life
# lesson = 002-shifts-nights-and-other-ways-of-working.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): R4-particle ×1, R5-strong ×1
1	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
2	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:det
3	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	nsubj	_	_
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	_
5	up	up	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound:prt	_	Agree=R4-particle|Haiku=3:compound|HaikuPos=PART:RP:_
6	works	work	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nmod	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	office	office	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
14	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	nsubj	_	_
15	work	work	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
16	shifts	shift	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	nights	night	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	_
22	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	15	obl	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
30	jobs	job	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	conj	_	_
31	at	at	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	30	advmod	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow up** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **work** | present |  | nine to five |  |  |  | in a office | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in office=Theme |
| 3 | **work** | present | many | shifts and nights and part time |  |  |  | for shifts *= shift* | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent shift=Theme for themselves=Eventuality |

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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): R4-particle ×1, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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