--- title: Being sacked or fired means losing a job because of something the pe… — When work goes wrong · tree and pragmatics description: Being sacked or fired means losing a job because of something the person did, such as often being late or breaking rules; employers usually have to give warnings first. Who acts: person, employers. A sentence of the lesson «When work goes wrong» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with --- [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/7/) [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/) / 7 # When work goes wrong, sentence 7 Being sacked or fired means losing a job because of something the person did, such as often being late or breaking rules; employers usually have to give warnings first. **Who acts:** person, employers · **What happens:** sack, fire, mean, lose, do, be · **To what, where:** job, rules, warnings · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (person, employers), 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:7 # text = Being sacked or fired means losing a job because of something the person did, such as often being late or breaking rules; employers usually have to give warnings first. # 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 Being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 aux:pass _ _ 2 sacked sack VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 csubj _ _ 3 or or CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 fired fire VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 conj _ _ 5 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 losing lose VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 ccomp _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 job job NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 because because ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 9 fixed _ _ 11 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 6 obl _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 acl:relcl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 16 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=SCONJ 20 mark _ _ 17 as as ADP IN _ 16 fixed _ _ 18 often often ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 19 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 20 cop _ _ 20 late late ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 21 or or CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 breaking break VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 20 conj _ _ 23 rules rule NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 employers employer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 26 usually usually ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 xcomp _ _ 30 warnings warning NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obj _ _ 31 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 29 advmod _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sack** | gerund · passive | | | | | | | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP» | | 2 | **fire** | participle | | | | | | | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **mean** | present | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **lose** | gerund | | a job | | | | because something | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Eventuality | | 5 | **do** | past | the person | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is** | gerund | | | | | | late, often *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **break** | gerund | | rules | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rule=Patient | | 8 | **have** | present | employers | | | | | usually *property* | tree rules | | 9 | **give** | to-infinitive | employers *not said here* | warnings | | | | first *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent warning=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:7`. **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, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/4-when-work-goes-wrong/6/) - next →: [When work goes wrong, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/4-when-work-goes-wrong/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/4-when-work-goes-wrong/)