--- title: When someone is too ill to work they call in sick; some employers ke… — Shifts, nights and other ways of working · tree and pragmatics description: When someone is too ill to work they call in sick; some employers keep paying them, some pay only a little, and the self-employed get nothing. Who acts: someone, people, employers, some. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (someone, people, employers, some), 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:11 # text = When someone is too ill to work they call in sick; some employers keep paying them, some pay only a little, and the self-employed get nothing. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 5 advmod _ _ 2 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 too too ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 ill ill ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 advcl _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 work work VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 advcl _ _ 8 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 call call VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 sick sick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 obl _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 13 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 14 det _ _ 14 employers employer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 15 keep keep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 16 paying pay VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 xcomp _ _ 17 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 20 nsubj _ _ 20 pay pay VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 21 only only ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 obj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 27 self self NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 28 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 27 punct _ _ 29 employed employ VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 30 nsubj _ _ 30 get get VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 31 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 30 obj _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=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 | **is** | present | someone | | | | | ill *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **work** | to-infinitive | someone *not said here* | | | | | | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **call** *speech: assert* | present | people | | | sick | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **keep** | present | some employers | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **pay** | gerund | some employers *not said here* | people | | | | | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Asset | | 6 | **pay** | present | some | a little | | | | | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent little=Asset | | 7 | **employ** | participle | | | | | | | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **get** | present | | nothing | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus | 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:11`. **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): R6-punct-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. 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