--- title: Being turned down is normal for everyone, and being picked is the re… — Finding a job and getting on · tree and pragmatics description: Being turned down is normal for everyone, and being picked is the reward for trying again and again. Who acts: reward. 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/3-finding-a-job-and-getting-on/3/) [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/) / [Finding a job and getting on](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/3-finding-a-job-and-getting-on/) / 3 # Finding a job and getting on, sentence 3 Being turned down is normal for everyone, and being picked is the reward for trying again and again. **Who acts:** reward · **What happens:** turn down, be, pick, try · **To what, where:** reward 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 (reward), 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:3 # text = Being turned down is normal for everyone, and being picked is the reward for trying again and again. # 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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 aux:pass _ _ 2 turned turn VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 csubj _ _ 3 down down ADP RP _ 2 compound:prt _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 normal normal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 for for ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 5 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:nsubj 8 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 10 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 aux:pass _ _ 11 picked pick VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 csubj _ _ 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 reward reward NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 15 for for SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 16 trying try VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 14 acl _ _ 17 again again ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 again again ADV RB _ 17 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:conj 20 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **turn down** | gerund · passive | | | | | | | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S\_ING» | | 2 | **is** | present | | | | | | for everyone; normal *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **pick** | gerund · passive | | | | | | | vn chew-39.2 «NP V» | | 4 | **is a** | present | | the reward | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **try** | gerund | the reward *not said here* | | | | again | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | 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:3`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×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/). - ← previous: [Finding a job and getting on, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/3-finding-a-job-and-getting-on/2/) - next →: [Finding a job and getting on, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/3-finding-a-job-and-getting-on/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/3-finding-a-job-and-getting-on/)