--- title: "Laid off" (US) means dismissed from work because there is not enoug… — Soft words for hard things: money and poverty an… · tree and pragmatics description: "Laid off" (US) means dismissed from work because there is not enough work. Who acts: enough work. A sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: money and poverty and work, firing and the economy» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/20-debt-and-jobs/18/) [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/) / [Euphemisms](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/) / [Soft words for hard things: money and…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/20-debt-and-jobs/) / 18 # Soft words for hard things: money and poverty and work, firing and the economy, sentence 18 "Laid off" (US) means dismissed from work because there is not enough work. **Who acts:** enough work · **What happens:** lay off, mean, dismiss, not be · **To what, where:** work · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: money and poverty and work, firing and the economy» of the euphemisms 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 (enough work), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:euphemisms:020-debt-and-jobs.lesson:18 # text = "Laid off" (US) means dismissed from work because there is not enough work. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = euphemisms # lesson = 020-debt-and-jobs.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): R5-strong ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 Laid lay VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 nsubj _ _ 3 off off ADP RP _ 2 compound:prt _ _ 4 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 5 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 6 punct _ _ 6 US US PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 parataxis _ _ 7 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 6 punct _ _ 8 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 dismissed dismiss VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 ccomp _ _ 10 from from ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 work work NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 12 because because SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 13 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 14 expl _ _ 14 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 15 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 14 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:advmod 16 enough enough ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 work work NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 18 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lay off** *in a quote* | past | | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **mean** | present | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **dismiss** | participle | | | | work | | | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from work=Source | | 4 | **not** **be** | present | enough work | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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:euphemisms:020-debt-and-jobs.lesson:18`. **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): R5-strong ×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: [Soft words for hard things: money and…, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/20-debt-and-jobs/17/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: money and…, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/20-debt-and-jobs/19/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/20-debt-and-jobs/)