--- title: Night shifts mean working through the night and sleeping in the day;… — Shifts, nights and other ways of working · tree and pragmatics description: Night shifts mean working through the night and sleeping in the day; nurses, drivers, bakers and warehouse workers often do them. Who acts: Night shifts, nurses. 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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 (Night shifts, nurses), 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:6 # text = Night shifts mean working through the night and sleeping in the day; nurses, drivers, bakers and warehouse workers often do them. # 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 Night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 shifts shift NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 mean mean VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 working work VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 xcomp _ _ 5 through through ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 sleeping sleep VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 conj _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 nurses nurse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 drivers driver NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 conj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 bakers baker NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 conj _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 20 warehouse warehouse NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 workers worker NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 conj _ _ 22 often often ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 do do VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 24 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | Night shifts | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **work** *not said to happen* | gerund | Night shifts *not said here* | | | | night | | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **sleep** | gerund | Night shifts *not said here* | | | | day | | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **do** | present | nurses and drivers and bakers and warehouse workers | shifts *= shift* | | | | often *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Eventuality | 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:6`. **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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