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title: Some retired people miss the routine, their workmates and the feelin… — Finding a job and getting on · tree and pragmatics
description: Some retired people miss the routine, their workmates and the feeling of being useful. Who acts: retired people, feeling. 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 17

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Some retired people miss the routine, their workmates and the feeling of being useful.

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**Who acts:** retired people, feeling · **What happens:** miss, be · **To what, where:** routine

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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 (retired people, feeling), 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:17
# text = Some retired people miss the routine, their workmates and the feeling of being useful.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
2	retired	retired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	miss	miss	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	routine	routine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	workmates	workmate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=6:cc
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	feeling	feeling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=9:conj
13	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
14	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	cop	_	_
15	useful	useful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	acl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:nmod
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **miss** | present | some retired people | the routine and people's workmates and the feeling |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer routine=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is** | gerund | the feeling *not said here* |  |  |  |  | useful *property* | tree rules |

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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:17`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, 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/).

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