--- title: "Letting people go" means a company is ending some workers' jobs, us… — When work goes wrong · tree and pragmatics description: "Letting people go" means a company is ending some workers' jobs, usually to cut costs; it sounds gentle but people lose their jobs. Who acts: people, Letting, company, workers. 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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 (people, Letting, company, workers), 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:5 # text = "Letting people go" means a company is ending some workers' jobs, usually to cut costs; it sounds gentle but people lose their jobs. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 Letting let VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 csubj _ _ 3 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 4 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 xcomp _ _ 5 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct 6 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 company company NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 ending end VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 ccomp _ _ 11 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 12 det _ _ 12 workers worker NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nmod:poss _ _ 13 ' 's PART POS _ 12 case _ _ 14 jobs job NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 usually usually ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 cut cut VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 advcl _ _ 19 costs cost NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 sounds sound VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 23 gentle gentle ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 xcomp _ _ 24 but but CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 26 lose lose VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 27 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 jobs job NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obj _ _ 29 . . 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 | **let** *in a quote* | gerund | | people | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **go** *in a quote* | infinitive | people *not said here* | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **mean** | present | Letting | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **end** | present · progressive | a company | some workers's jobs | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality job=Eventuality | | 5 | **cut** | to-infinitive | a company *not said here* | costs | | | | usually *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset cost=Product | | 6 | **sound** | present | company | | | | | gentle *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 7 | **lose** | present | people | workers's jobs | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Eventuality | | 8 | **job** | | some workers | | | | | | nom job «act intransitive»: poss=agent | | 9 | **job** | | workers *= worker* | | | | | | 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:5`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/4-when-work-goes-wrong/4/) - next →: [When work goes wrong, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/4-when-work-goes-wrong/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/4-when-work-goes-wrong/)