--- title: An employment tribunal is a kind of court for work disputes, such as… — When work goes wrong · tree and pragmatics description: An employment tribunal is a kind of court for work disputes, such as being sacked unfairly or not being paid what is owed. Who acts: employment tribunal. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (employment tribunal), 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:17 # text = An employment tribunal is a kind of court for work disputes, such as being sacked unfairly or not being paid what is owed. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×2 1 An a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 employment employment NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 tribunal tribunal 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 kind kind NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 court court NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 9 for for ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 work work NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 disputes dispute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nmod _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=SCONJ 16 mark _ _ 14 as as ADP IN _ 13 fixed _ _ 15 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 16 aux:pass _ _ 16 sacked sack VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 acl _ _ 17 unfairly unfairly ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 18 or or CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 19 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 21 advmod _ _ 20 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 21 aux:pass _ _ 21 paid pay VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 conj _ _ 22 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 24 nsubj:pass _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:obj 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux:pass _ _ 24 owed owe VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:xcomp 25 . . PUNCT . _ 6 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 | **is a** | present | a employment tribunal | a kind | | | | of court; for work disputes | tree rules | | 2 | **sack** | gerund · passive | | work disputes *not said here* | | | | unfairly *property* | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP» | | 3 | **not** **pay** | gerund · passive | | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **owe** | present · passive | | | | | | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=Theme | 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:17`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×2. **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, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/4-when-work-goes-wrong/16/) - next →: [Where money comes from, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/5-where-money-comes-from/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/4-when-work-goes-wrong/)