--- title: Self-employed people work for themselves, like many plumbers and hai… — Shifts, nights and other ways of working · tree and pragmatics description: Self-employed people work for themselves, like many plumbers and hairdressers; they choose their hours but get no sick pay or holiday pay and must work out and pay their own tax. Who acts: employed people, people. A sentence of the lesson «Shifts, nights and other ways of working» of the adult life --- [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/9/) [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/) / 9 # Shifts, nights and other ways of working, sentence 9 Self-employed people work for themselves, like many plumbers and hairdressers; they choose their hours but get no sick pay or holiday pay and must work out and pay their own tax. **Who acts:** employed people, people · **What happens:** employ, work, choose, get, work out, pay · **To what, where:** sick pay, own tax 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 (employed people, people), 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:9 # text = Self-employed people work for themselves, like many plumbers and hairdressers; they choose their hours but get no sick pay or holiday pay and must work out and pay their own tax. # 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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Self self NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 1 punct _ _ 3 employed employ VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 amod _ _ 4 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 work work VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 for for ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 themselves themselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 5 obl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 like like ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 plumbers plumber NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 hairdressers hairdresser NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 conj _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 choose choose VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 17 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 19 but but CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 get get VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Sub|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 23 det _ _ 22 sick sick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 pay pay NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 24 or or CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 holiday holiday NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 pay pay NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 conj _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 28 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 29 work work VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 conj _ _ 30 out out ADP RP _ 29 compound:prt _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 pay pay VERB VB Mood=Sub|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 conj _ _ 33 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 34 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 tax tax NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **employ** | participle | | | | | | | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **work** | present | employed people | | | | | for people; like many plumbers and hairdressers | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for themselves=Beneficiary | | 3 | **choose** | present | people | | | | hour | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **get** | present | people *not said here* | no sick pay or holiday pay | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pay=Stimulus | | 5 | **work out** | must | people *not said here* | | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **pay** | infinitive | people *not said here* | people's own tax | | | | | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tax=Asset | | 7 | **tax** | | people | | | | | | nom tax «possession transitive»: poss=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:9`. **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, R8-pos-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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