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title: Retiring means stopping paid work for good, usually in your sixties,… — Finding a job and getting on · tree and pragmatics
description: Retiring means stopping paid work for good, usually in your sixties, and living on a pension and savings. Who acts: Retiring. A sentence of the lesson «Finding a job and getting on» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Finding a job and getting on, sentence 16

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Retiring means stopping paid work for good, usually in your sixties, and living on a pension and savings.

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**Who acts:** Retiring · **What happens:** retire, mean, stop, pay, live · **To what, where:** paid work, sixties, pension · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Finding a job and getting on» 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 (Retiring), 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:16
# text = Retiring means stopping paid work for good, usually in your sixties, and living on a pension and savings.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Retiring	retire	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	stopping	stop	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	xcomp	_	_
4	paid	pay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
5	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	sixties	sixties	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	living	live	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:conj
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	pension	pension	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	savings	savings	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	18	conj	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **retire** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **mean** | present | Retiring |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **stop** *not said to happen* | gerund | Retiring *not said here* | paid work |  | your sixties |  | for good | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality work=Eventuality |
| 4 | **pay** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **live** | gerund | Retiring *not said here* |  |  | a pension and savings |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on pension=Location |

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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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**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:16`.

**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, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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