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title: A rota shows someone's shifts, set blocks of working hours that can… — Shifts, nights and other ways of working · tree and pragmatics
description: A rota shows someone's shifts, set blocks of working hours that can change every week, so family plans have to fit round it. Who acts: rota, working hours, family plans, someone. A sentence of the lesson «Shifts, nights and other ways of working» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school wit
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# Shifts, nights and other ways of working, sentence 5

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A rota shows someone's shifts, set blocks of working hours that can change every week, so family plans have to fit round it.

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**Who acts:** rota, working hours, family plans, someone · **What happens:** show, change, have, fit, shift · **To what, where:** shifts, 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 (rota, working hours, family plans, someone), 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:5
# text = A rota shows someone's shifts, set blocks of working hours that can change every week, so family plans have to fit round it.
# 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	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	rota	rota	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	shifts	shift	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	set	set	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	blocks	block	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	working	working	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:amod|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger
12	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
14	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	change	change	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	acl:relcl	_	_
16	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	det	_	_
17	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl:unmarked	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	so	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
20	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	plans	plan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
22	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	fit	fit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
25	round	round	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **show** | present | a rota | someone's shifts and set blocks of working hours |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent shift=Recipient |
| 2 | **change** | can | working hours |  |  |  | week |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **have** | present | family plans |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **fit** | to-infinitive | family plans *not said here* |  |  | rota |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent round it=Trajectory |
| 5 | **shift** |  | someone |  |  |  |  |  | nom shift «event transitive»: poss=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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**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.

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