--- title: A job interview is a meeting where an employer asks questions to dec… — Finding a job and getting on · tree and pragmatics description: A job interview is a meeting where an employer asks questions to decide whom to hire; several people usually compete for one job. Who acts: job interview, employer, several people. A sentence of the lesson «Finding a job and getting on» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its depe --- [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/8/) [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/) / 8 # Finding a job and getting on, sentence 8 A job interview is a meeting where an employer asks questions to decide whom to hire; several people usually compete for one job. **Who acts:** job interview, employer, several people · **What happens:** be, ask, decide, hire, compete · **To what, where:** meeting, questions · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (job interview, employer, several 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:8 # text = A job interview is a meeting where an employer asks questions to decide whom to hire; several people usually compete for one job. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 job job NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 interview interview NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 meeting meeting NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 10 advmod _ _ 8 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 employer employer NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 asks ask VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ _ 11 questions question NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 decide decide VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 advcl _ _ 14 whom whom PRON WP PronType=Rel 16 obj _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 hire hire VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:xcomp 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 several several ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 20 usually usually ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 compete compete VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 22 for for ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 24 nummod _ _ 24 job job NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a job interview | a meeting | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | a employer | questions | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient | | 3 | **decide** | to-infinitive | a employer *not said here* | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **hire** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Theme | | 5 | **compete** | present | several people | | | | | for one job; usually *property* | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:8`. **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): 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, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/3-finding-a-job-and-getting-on/7/) - next →: [Finding a job and getting on, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/3-finding-a-job-and-getting-on/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/3-finding-a-job-and-getting-on/)