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title: Redundancy means the job itself is being got rid of, not that the pe… — When work goes wrong · tree and pragmatics
description: Redundancy means the job itself is being got rid of, not that the person did anything wrong; people who have worked there a while often get some money to help them. Who acts: Redundancy, person, people, money. A sentence of the lesson «When work goes wrong» of the adult life course of Mova's primary
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# When work goes wrong, sentence 6

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Redundancy means the job itself is being got rid of, not that the person did anything wrong; people who have worked there a while often get some money to help them.

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**Who acts:** Redundancy, person, people, money · **What happens:** mean, get, not do, work, help · **To what, where:** job, anything, money, people · **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 (Redundancy, person, people, money), 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:6
# text = Redundancy means the job itself is being got rid of, not that the person did anything wrong; people who have worked there a while often get some money to help them.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Redundancy	redundancy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	job	job	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	4	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:appos
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	ccomp	_	_
9	rid	rid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
17	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	16	obj	_	_
18	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=2:punct
20	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
21	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
22	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	worked	work	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	acl:relcl	_	_
24	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	23	advmod	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	while	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl:unmarked	_	_
27	often	often	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
29	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	30	det	_	_
30	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	xcomp	_	_
33	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | Redundancy |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **get** | present · progressive · passive |  | the job  Redundancy |  |  |  | rid *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
| 3 | **not** **do** | past | the person | anything |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality |
| 4 | **work** | present · perfect | people |  |  | there | while |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **get** | present | people | some money |  |  |  | often *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **help** | to-infinitive | some money *not said here* | people |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary |

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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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**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): R2-punct-next ×1, 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/).

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