--- title: Sometimes work goes wrong: a firm cuts jobs, a factory closes, someo… — When work goes wrong · tree and pragmatics description: Sometimes work goes wrong: a firm cuts jobs, a factory closes, someone is sacked, workers go on strike, or a grown-up is simply worn out. Who acts: work, firm, factory, workers. A sentence of the lesson «When work goes wrong» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/4-when-work-goes-wrong/0/) [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/) / [When work goes wrong](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/4-when-work-goes-wrong/) / 0 # When work goes wrong, sentence 0 Sometimes work goes wrong: a firm cuts jobs, a factory closes, someone is sacked, workers go on strike, or a grown-up is simply worn out. **Who acts:** work, firm, factory, workers · **What happens:** go, cut, close, sack, grow, wear out · **To what, where:** jobs, someone, strike, grown up This is a sentence of the lesson «When work goes wrong» 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 (work, firm, factory, workers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:004-when-work-goes-wrong.lesson:0 # text = Sometimes work goes wrong: a firm cuts jobs, a factory closes, someone is sacked, workers go on strike, or a grown-up is simply worn out. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 004-when-work-goes-wrong.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Sometimes sometimes ADV RB PronType=Ind 3 advmod _ _ 2 work work NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 goes go VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 xcomp _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 firm firm NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 cuts cut VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 9 jobs job NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 factory factory NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 closes close VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 advcl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct 15 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 17 nsubj _ _ 16 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux:pass _ _ 17 sacked sack VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 xcomp _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 workers worker NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 20 go go VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 21 on on ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 strike strike NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 24 or or CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 26 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 28 amod _ _ 27 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 26 punct _ _ 28 up up NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj:pass _ _ 29 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux:pass _ _ 30 simply simply ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 worn wear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ _ 32 out out ADP RP _ 31 compound:prt _ _ 33 . . 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 | **go** | present | work | | | | | sometimes, wrong *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **cut** | present | a firm | jobs | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset job=Product | | 3 | **close** | present | a factory | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **sack** | present · passive | | someone | | | | | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 5 | **go** | present | workers | | | strike | | | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on strike=Location | | 6 | **grow** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **wear out** | present · passive | | a grown up | | | | simply *property* | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: subject=Source | 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:004-when-work-goes-wrong.lesson:0`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/3-finding-a-job-and-getting-on/18/) - next →: [When work goes wrong, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/4-when-work-goes-wrong/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/4-when-work-goes-wrong/)