--- title: On a zero-hours contract the employer promises no set number of hour… — Shifts, nights and other ways of working · tree and pragmatics description: On a zero-hours contract the employer promises no set number of hours, so the hours and the pay can change every week. Who acts: employer, hours. 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 pra --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/2-shifts-nights-and-other-ways-of-working/10/) [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/) / [Shifts, nights and other ways of working](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/2-shifts-nights-and-other-ways-of-working/) / 10 # Shifts, nights and other ways of working, sentence 10 On a zero-hours contract the employer promises no set number of hours, so the hours and the pay can change every week. **Who acts:** employer, hours · **What happens:** promise, change · **To what, where:** hours contract 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 (employer, hours), 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:10 # text = On a zero-hours contract the employer promises no set number of hours, so the hours and the pay 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 On on ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 3 zero zero NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:compound 4 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 3 punct _ _ 5 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 compound _ _ 6 contract contract NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:obl 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 employer employer NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 promises promise VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 12 det _ _ 11 set set ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 number number NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nmod _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 16 so so ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 pay pay NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:nsubj 22 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 change change VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 parataxis _ _ 24 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 25 det _ _ 25 week week NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl:unmarked _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **promise** *speech: promise* | present | the employer | a hours contract | | | | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent number=Theme | | 2 | **change** | can | the hours and the pay | | | | week | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:002-shifts-nights-and-other-ways-of-working.lesson:10`. **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: [Shifts, nights and other ways of working, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/2-shifts-nights-and-other-ways-of-working/9/) - next →: [Shifts, nights and other ways of working, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/2-shifts-nights-and-other-ways-of-working/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/2-shifts-nights-and-other-ways-of-working/)