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title: Burnout means being worn down by too much work and stress for too lo… — When work goes wrong · tree and pragmatics
description: Burnout means being worn down by too much work and stress for too long, until even small tasks feel huge. Who acts: Burnout, much work, small tasks. 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 
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# When work goes wrong, sentence 15

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Burnout means being worn down by too much work and stress for too long, until even small tasks feel huge.

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**Who acts:** Burnout, much work, small tasks · **What happens:** mean, wear down, feel · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Burnout, much work, small tasks), 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:15
# text = Burnout means being worn down by too much work and stress for too long, until even small tasks feel huge.
# 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	Burnout	burnout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	worn	wear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	ccomp	_	_
5	down	down	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	too	too	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	stress	stress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	too	too	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
17	even	even	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:advmod
18	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	tasks	task	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
20	feel	feel	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
21	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	xcomp	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | Burnout |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **wear down** | gerund · passive | much work and stress |  |  |  |  | for long | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **feel** | present | small tasks |  |  |  |  | huge *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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: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. **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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