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title: In the UK a strike is legal after a vote, and the disruption is deli… — When work goes wrong · tree and pragmatics
description: In the UK a strike is legal after a vote, and the disruption is deliberate so that people notice. Who acts: strike, disruption, people. 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 of every clause.
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# When work goes wrong, sentence 13

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In the UK a strike is legal after a vote, and the disruption is deliberate so that people notice.

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**Who acts:** strike, disruption, people · **What happens:** be, notice · **To what, where:** UK

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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 (strike, disruption, people), 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:13
# text = In the UK a strike is legal after a vote, and the disruption is deliberate so that people notice.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	UK	UK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	strike	strike	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	legal	legal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	after	after	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	vote	vote	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=7:cc
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	disruption	disruption	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	deliberate	deliberate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
17	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	fixed	_	_
19	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
20	notice	notice	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | a strike |  |  | the UK | after a vote | legal *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | the disruption |  |  |  |  | deliberate *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **notice** | present | people |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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**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: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): R1-cc-next ×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/).

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