--- title: An interview is a meeting where an employer asks questions to see if… — Money, work and the big choices · tree and pragmatics description: An interview is a meeting where an employer asks questions to see if you suit a job, and you see if the job suits you; most people don't get every job they try for. Who acts: interview, employer, you, job. 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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 (interview, employer, you, job), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:039-money-work-and-the-big-choices.lesson:13 # text = An interview is a meeting where an employer asks questions to see if you suit a job, and you see if the job suits you; most people don't get every job they try for. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 039-money-work-and-the-big-choices.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 An a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 interview interview NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 meeting meeting NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 9 advmod _ _ 7 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 employer employer NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 asks ask VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 10 questions question NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 advcl _ _ 13 if if SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 14 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 suit suit VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 ccomp _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 job job NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 20 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 see see VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 22 if if SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 job job NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 25 suits suit VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 ccomp _ _ 26 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 25 obj _ _ 27 ; ; PUNCT : _ 32 punct _ _ 28 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 29 amod _ _ 29 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nsubj _ _ 30 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 31 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 32 advmod _ _ 32 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 parataxis _ _ 33 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 34 det _ _ 34 job job NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 35 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 36 try try VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 acl:relcl _ _ 37 for for ADP IN _ 36 obl _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a 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 | **see** | to-infinitive | a employer *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 4 | **suit** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | a job | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **see** | present | you | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 6 | **suit** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | the job | you | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **not** **get** | present · do-support | most people | every job | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer job=Stimulus | | 8 | **try** | present | employers *= employer* | every job *not said here* | | | | | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Eventuality | 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:039-money-work-and-the-big-choices.lesson:13`. **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/). - ← previous: [Money, work and the big choices, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/39-money-work-and-the-big-choices/12/) - next →: [Money, work and the big choices, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/39-money-work-and-the-big-choices/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/39-money-work-and-the-big-choices/)