--- title: Probation at work is a trial period, often three or six months, when… — Finding a job and getting on · tree and pragmatics description: Probation at work is a trial period, often three or six months, when the worker and employer see if the job fits; it has nothing to do with crime. Who acts: Probation, worker, job. 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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 (Probation, worker, job), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:003-finding-a-job-and-getting-on.lesson:14 # text = Probation at work is a trial period, often three or six months, when the worker and employer see if the job fits; it has nothing to do with crime. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 003-finding-a-job-and-getting-on.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 ×2 1 Probation probation NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 2 at at ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 work work NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 trial trial NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 period period NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 9 often often ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 10 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 13 nummod _ _ 11 or or CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 six six NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 10 conj _ _ 13 months month NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj 14 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 15 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 20 advmod _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 worker worker NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 employer employer NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 20 see see VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:parataxis|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 21 if if SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 job job NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 fits fit VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 advcl _ _ 25 ; ; PUNCT : _ 27 punct _ _ 26 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 28 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 27 obj _ _ 29 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 30 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 acl _ _ 31 with with ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 crime crime NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 7 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 a** | present | Probation at work | a trial period | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **see** | present | the worker and employer | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **fit** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | the job | | | | | | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **have** | present | job | nothing | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient | | 5 | **do** | to-infinitive | job *not said here* | nothing *not said here* | | | | with crime | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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:003-finding-a-job-and-getting-on.lesson:14`. **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 ×2. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Finding a job and getting on, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/3-finding-a-job-and-getting-on/13/) - next →: [Finding a job and getting on, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/3-finding-a-job-and-getting-on/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/3-finding-a-job-and-getting-on/)