--- title: Choosing a job means thinking about what you enjoy, what you're good… — Money, work and the big choices · tree and pragmatics description: Choosing a job means thinking about what you enjoy, what you're good at and what pays enough; many adults change jobs or careers more than once. Who acts: Choosing, you, many adults. 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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 (Choosing, you, many adults), 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:15 # text = Choosing a job means thinking about what you enjoy, what you're good at and what pays enough; many adults change jobs or careers more than once. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Choosing choose VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 csubj _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 job job NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:nsubj 4 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 thinking think VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 xcomp _ _ 6 about about SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 7 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 9 obj _ _ 8 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 enjoy enjoy VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 ccomp _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 11 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 14 obl _ _ 12 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 13 're be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 14 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 conj _ _ 15 at at ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 what what DET WDT PronType=Int 18 nsubj _ _ 18 pays pay VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 advcl _ _ 19 enough enough ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 adults adult NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 23 change change VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 conj _ _ 24 jobs job NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 25 or or CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 careers career NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 conj _ _ 27 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 29 advmod _ _ 28 than than ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 23 obl _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **choose** | gerund | | a job | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Theme | | 2 | **mean** | present | Choosing | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **think** *speech: other* *not said to happen* | gerund | Choosing *not said here* | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 4 | **enjoy** | present | you | | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | | 5 | **is** | present | you | | | | | good *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **pay** | present | | | | | | enough *property* | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **change** | infinitive | many adults | jobs or careers | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Patient | 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:15`. **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, R6-punct-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: [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/) - next →: [Money, work and the big choices, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/39-money-work-and-the-big-choices/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/39-money-work-and-the-big-choices/)