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title: Starting a new job means learning new systems, names and rules all a… — Finding a job and getting on · tree and pragmatics
description: Starting a new job means learning new systems, names and rules all at once, so people come home tired. Who acts: Starting, people. 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 18

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Starting a new job means learning new systems, names and rules all at once, so people come home tired.

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**Who acts:** Starting, people · **What happens:** start, mean, learn, come · **To what, where:** new job, new systems · **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 (Starting, people), 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:18
# text = Starting a new job means learning new systems, names and rules all at once, so people come home tired.
# 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	Starting	start	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	csubj	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	job	job	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	learning	learn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	ccomp	_	_
7	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	systems	system	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	names	name	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	rules	rule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
13	all	all	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	6	advmod	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	6	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
18	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
19	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
20	home	home	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:advmod
21	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:advcl
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **start** | gerund |  | a new job |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Eventuality |
| 2 | **mean** | present | Starting |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **learn** | gerund |  | new systems and names and rules |  |  |  | all *property* | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent system=Topic |
| 4 | **come** | present | people |  |  |  |  | home, tired *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:18`.

**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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