--- title: Job hunting means searching adverts and sending applications, often… — Finding a job and getting on · tree and pragmatics description: Job hunting means searching adverts and sending applications, often dozens before getting anywhere; many get no reply at all. Who acts: Job hunting, many. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Job hunting, many), 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:5 # text = Job hunting means searching adverts and sending applications, often dozens before getting anywhere; many get no reply at all. # 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 ×2 1 Job job NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 hunting hunting NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 searching search VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:ccomp 5 adverts advert NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 sending send VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 conj _ _ 8 applications application NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 often often ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 dozens dozen NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 12 before before SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 13 getting get VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ _ 14 anywhere anywhere ADV RB PronType=Ind 13 advmod _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 nsubj _ _ 17 get get VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 18 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 19 det _ _ 19 reply reply NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 at at ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 19 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:obl 22 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | Job hunting | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **search** *not said to happen* | gerund | Job hunting *not said here* | adverts | | | | dozens *obl* | vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent advert=Location | | 3 | **send** | gerund | Job hunting *not said here* | applications | | | | | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent application=Theme | | 4 | **get** | gerund | Job hunting *not said here* | | | | | anywhere *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **get** | present | many | no reply | | all | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent reply=Theme at all=Asset | 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:5`. **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 ×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/). - ← previous: [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/) - next →: [Finding a job and getting on, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/3-finding-a-job-and-getting-on/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/3-finding-a-job-and-getting-on/)