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title: At the other end of working life comes retirement, when people stop… — Finding a job and getting on · tree and pragmatics
description: At the other end of working life comes retirement, when people stop paid work for good. Who acts: life, retirement, 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 4

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At the other end of working life comes retirement, when people stop paid work for good.

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**Who acts:** life, retirement, people · **What happens:** work, come, stop, pay · **To what, where:** other end, paid work

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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 (life, retirement, 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:4
# text = At the other end of working life comes retirement, when people stop paid work for good.
# 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): no change
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	working	work	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
7	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	retirement	retirement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
11	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
12	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	stop	stop	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
14	paid	pay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	amod	_	_
15	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	obl	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **work** | gerund | life *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **come** | present | retirement |  |  |  | at the other end of life |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at end=Location |
| 3 | **stop** | present | people | paid work |  |  |  | for good | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector work=Eventuality |
| 4 | **pay** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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:4`.

**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): no change. **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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