--- title: A company that sacks hundreds of workers may call it "downsizing", "… — Soft words for hard things: money and poverty an… · tree and pragmatics description: A company that sacks hundreds of workers may call it "downsizing", "rightsizing" or "restructuring", which is spin to make it sound sensible. Who acts: company, restructuring, money. A sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: money and poverty and work, firing and the economy» of the euph --- [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/2/) [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/) / 2 # Soft words for hard things: money and poverty and work, firing and the economy, sentence 2 A company that sacks hundreds of workers may call it "downsizing", "rightsizing" or "restructuring", which is spin to make it sound sensible. **Who acts:** company, restructuring, money · **What happens:** sack, call, be, make, sound · **To what, where:** hundreds, money, spin · **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 (company, restructuring, money), 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:2 # text = A company that sacks hundreds of workers may call it "downsizing", "rightsizing" or "restructuring", which is spin to make it sound sensible. # 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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 company company NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 3 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 4 nsubj _ _ 4 sacks sack VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 acl:relcl _ _ 5 hundreds hundred NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:nsubj 6 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 workers worker NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nmod _ _ 8 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 call call VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ _ 11 " " PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ _ 12 downsizing downsizing NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 xcomp _ _ 13 " " PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 " " PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 16 rightsizing rightsize NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 " " PUNCT '' _ 16 punct _ _ 18 or or CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 " " PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ _ 20 restructuring restructuring NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ _ 21 " " PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 25 nsubj _ _ 24 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 25 spin spin NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 acl:relcl _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 advcl _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ _ 29 sound sound VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 xcomp _ _ 30 sensible sensible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 xcomp _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 9 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** | present | a company | hundreds of workers | | | | | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hundred=Theme | | 2 | **call** | may | a company | money | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient | | 3 | **is a** | present | restructuring | spin | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **make** | to-infinitive | a company *not said here* | money | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **sound** | infinitive | money *not said here* | | | | | sensible *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | 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:2`. **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 ×2, R8-pos-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: [Soft words for hard things: money and…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/20-debt-and-jobs/1/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: money and…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/20-debt-and-jobs/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/20-debt-and-jobs/)