--- title: Some people go to work ill because they can't afford to lose the pay… — Shifts, nights and other ways of working · tree and pragmatics description: Some people go to work ill because they can't afford to lose the pay, which spreads germs to everyone else. Who acts: people, pay. 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 pragmatics of ever --- [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/12/) [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/) / 12 # Shifts, nights and other ways of working, sentence 12 Some people go to work ill because they can't afford to lose the pay, which spreads germs to everyone else. **Who acts:** people, pay · **What happens:** go, work, not afford, lose, spread · **To what, where:** pay, germs 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 (people, pay), 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:12 # text = Some people go to work ill because they can't afford to lose the pay, which spreads germs to everyone else. # 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 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 det _ _ 2 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 go go VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 work work VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 6 ill ill ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 7 because because SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 8 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 9 ca can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 10 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 11 advmod _ _ 11 afford afford VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:advcl 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 lose lose VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 xcomp _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 pay pay NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 18 nsubj _ _ 18 spreads spread VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 acl:relcl _ _ 19 germs germ NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 20 to to ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 18 obl _ _ 22 else else ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | present | some people | | | | | | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **work** | to-infinitive | some people *not said here* | | | | | ill *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **not** **afford** | can | people | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **lose** | to-infinitive | people *not said here* | the pay | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pay=Eventuality | | 5 | **spread** | present | the pay | germs | | | | to everyone | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location germ=Theme | 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:12`. **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. **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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