--- title: A strike is when workers agree together to stop working to push thei… — When work goes wrong · tree and pragmatics description: A strike is when workers agree together to stop working to push their employer about pay or conditions; they are not paid while on strike. Who acts: strike. 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 pragmatics o --- [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/12/) [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/) / 12 # When work goes wrong, sentence 12 A strike is when workers agree together to stop working to push their employer about pay or conditions; they are not paid while on strike. **Who acts:** strike · **What happens:** be, stop, work, push, not pay · **To what, where:** employer, workers · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (strike), 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:12 # text = A strike is when workers agree together to stop working to push their employer about pay or conditions; they are not paid while on strike. # 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): R5-strong ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 strike strike NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj:outer _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 6 advmod _ _ 5 workers worker NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 6 agree agree VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 together together ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 advcl _ _ 10 working work VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 xcomp _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 push push VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 advcl _ _ 13 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 employer employer NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 about about ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 pay pay NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:nmod 17 or or CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 conditions condition NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 conj _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj:pass _ _ 21 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 22 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 23 advmod _ _ 23 paid pay VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 ccomp _ _ 24 while while SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 25 on on ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 strike strike NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 advcl _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **be** *speech: agree* | present | a strike | | | | | agree, together *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **stop** | to-infinitive | a strike *not said here* | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **work** | gerund | a strike *not said here* | | | | | | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **push** | to-infinitive | a strike *not said here* | workers's employer | | | | about pay or conditions | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent employer=Theme about pay=Trajectory | | 5 | **not** **pay** | present · passive | | workers *= worker* | | | | | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset | 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:12`. **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. **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: [When work goes wrong, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/4-when-work-goes-wrong/11/) - next →: [When work goes wrong, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/4-when-work-goes-wrong/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/4-when-work-goes-wrong/)