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title: Shops, hospitals, buses and factories need people at all hours, so t… — Shifts, nights and other ways of working · tree and pragmatics
description: Shops, hospitals, buses and factories need people at all hours, so their workers follow a rota that can change every week. Who acts: Shops, workers, rota. 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 an
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# Shifts, nights and other ways of working, sentence 1

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Shops, hospitals, buses and factories need people at all hours, so their workers follow a rota that can change every week.

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**Who acts:** Shops, workers, rota · **What happens:** need, follow, change · **To what, where:** people, rota

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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 (Shops, workers, rota), 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:1
# text = Shops, hospitals, buses and factories need people at all hours, so their workers follow a rota that can change every week.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Shops	shop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	hospitals	hospital	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	buses	bus	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	factories	factory	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
8	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
12	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
15	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	workers	worker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
17	follow	follow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	rota	rota	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
21	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	change	change	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	acl:relcl	_	_
23	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	24	det	_	_
24	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl:unmarked	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **need** | present | Shops and hospitals and buses and factories | people |  |  | hour |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot people=Theme |
| 2 | **follow** | present | Shops's workers | a rota |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rota=Theme |
| 3 | **change** | can | a rota |  |  |  | week |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: 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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**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:002-shifts-nights-and-other-ways-of-working.lesson:1`.

**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): 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.

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

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