--- title: "They went with someone with more experience" is the polite way of s… — Finding a job and getting on · tree and pragmatics description: "They went with someone with more experience" is the polite way of saying someone didn't get the job; often nothing was wrong with them. Who acts: Employers, polite way, someone, nothing. 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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 (Employers, polite way, someone, nothing), 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:9 # text = "They went with someone with more experience" is the polite way of saying someone didn't get the job; often nothing was wrong with them. # 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 ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ _ 2 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 csubj _ _ 4 with with ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 3 obl _ _ 6 with with ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 8 amod _ _ 8 experience experience NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 9 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 10 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 polite polite ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 14 of of SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 15 saying say VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 13 acl _ _ 16 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 19 nsubj _ _ 17 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 18 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 19 advmod _ _ 19 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 ccomp _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 job job NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 often often ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 24 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 26 nsubj _ _ 25 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 26 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:conj 27 with with ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obl _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** *in a quote* | past | Employers *= employer* | | | | | with someone | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with someone=Beneficiary | | 2 | **is a** | present | | the polite way | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | the polite way *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **not** **get** | past · do-support | someone | the job | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer job=Stimulus | | 5 | **is** | past | nothing | | | | | with Employers *= employer*; often, wrong *property* | tree rules | 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:9`. **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 ×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, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/3-finding-a-job-and-getting-on/8/) - next →: [Finding a job and getting on, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/3-finding-a-job-and-getting-on/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/3-finding-a-job-and-getting-on/)