--- title: When a business closes, everyone who works there loses their job; if… — When work goes wrong · tree and pragmatics description: When a business closes, everyone who works there loses their job; if it was a big employer, a whole town feels it. Who acts: business, everyone, whole town, 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 pragm --- [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/16/) [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/) / 16 # When work goes wrong, sentence 16 When a business closes, everyone who works there loses their job; if it was a big employer, a whole town feels it. **Who acts:** business, everyone, whole town, tasks · **What happens:** close, work, lose, be, feel, job · **To what, where:** job, big employer, business 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 (business, everyone, whole town, 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:16 # text = When a business closes, everyone who works there loses their job; if it was a big employer, a whole town feels it. # 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 When when SCONJ WRB _ 4 mark _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 business business NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 closes close VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 advcl _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 10 nsubj _ _ 7 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 8 nsubj _ _ 8 works work VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ _ 9 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 8 advmod _ _ 10 loses lose VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 job job NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 14 if if SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 16 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 employer employer NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 advcl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 town town NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 feels feel VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **close** | present | a business | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **work** | present | | | | there | | | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **lose** | present | everyone | tasks's job | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Eventuality | | 4 | **is a** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | business | a big employer | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **feel** | present | a whole town | business | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 6 | **job** | | tasks *= task* | | | | | | nom job «act intransitive»: poss=agent | 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:16`. **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/). - ← previous: [When work goes wrong, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/4-when-work-goes-wrong/15/) - next →: [When work goes wrong, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/4-when-work-goes-wrong/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/4-when-work-goes-wrong/)