--- title: "Pursuing other opportunities" in a company announcement usually mea… — Soft words for hard things: money and poverty an… · tree and pragmatics description: "Pursuing other opportunities" in a company announcement usually means fired or pushed to quit. Who acts: Pursuing. 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 --- [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/21/) [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/) / 21 # Soft words for hard things: money and poverty and work, firing and the economy, sentence 21 "Pursuing other opportunities" in a company announcement usually means fired or pushed to quit. **Who acts:** Pursuing · **What happens:** pursue, mean, fire, push, quit · **To what, where:** other opportunities, company announcement · **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 (Pursuing), 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:21 # text = "Pursuing other opportunities" in a company announcement usually means fired or pushed to quit. # 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, R6-punct-agree ×2 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 Pursuing pursue VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 csubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root 3 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 opportunities opportunity NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 5 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct 6 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 company company NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 announcement announcement NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 10 usually usually ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:parataxis 12 fired fire VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 ccomp _ _ 13 or or CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 pushed push VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 conj _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 quit quit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 advcl _ _ 17 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pursue** *in a quote* | gerund | | other opportunities | | a company announcement | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent opportunity=Theme in announcement=Trajectory | | 2 | **mean** | present | Pursuing | | | | | usually *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **fire** | participle | | | | | | | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **push** | participle | | | | | | | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **quit** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=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:euphemisms:020-debt-and-jobs.lesson:21`. **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, R6-punct-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/). - ← previous: [Soft words for hard things: money and…, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/20-debt-and-jobs/20/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: money and…, 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/20-debt-and-jobs/22/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/20-debt-and-jobs/)