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title: A trade union is a group of workers who each pay a small fee so they… — When work goes wrong · tree and pragmatics
description: A trade union is a group of workers who each pay a small fee so they can talk to bosses together about pay and conditions. Who acts: trade union, workers, unions. A sentence of the lesson «When work goes wrong» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# When work goes wrong, sentence 10

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A trade union is a group of workers who each pay a small fee so they can talk to bosses together about pay and conditions.

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**Who acts:** trade union, workers, unions · **What happens:** be, pay, talk · **To what, where:** group, small fee

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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 (trade union, workers, unions), 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:10
# text = A trade union is a group of workers who each pay a small fee so they can talk to bosses together about pay and conditions.
# 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): no change
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	trade	trade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	union	union	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	group	group	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	workers	worker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
10	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	advmod	_	_
11	pay	pay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	fee	fee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	talk	talk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	bosses	boss	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
21	together	together	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
22	about	about	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	pay	pay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	conditions	condition	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | a trade union | a group |  |  |  | of workers | tree rules |
| 2 | **pay** | present | workers | a small fee |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fee=Asset |
| 3 | **talk** | can | unions *= union* |  |  |  |  | to bosses; about pay and conditions; together *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.topic»: agent=Agent to boss=Co-Agent about pay=Topic |

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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.

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**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/).

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