--- title: "To spend more time with family" is often the official reason given… — Soft words for hard things: money and poverty an… · tree and pragmatics description: "To spend more time with family" is often the official reason given when someone is forced to resign. Who acts: someone. 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 tre --- [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/22/) [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/) / 22 # Soft words for hard things: money and poverty and work, firing and the economy, sentence 22 "To spend more time with family" is often the official reason given when someone is forced to resign. **Who acts:** someone · **What happens:** spend, be, give, force, resign · **To what, where:** official reason, someone · **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 (someone), 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:22 # text = "To spend more time with family" is often the official reason given when someone is forced to resign. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct 2 To to PART TO _ 3 mark _ _ 3 spend spend VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 csubj _ _ 4 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 5 amod _ _ 5 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 with with ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 8 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 10 often often ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 official official ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 reason reason NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 14 given give VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 acl _ _ 15 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 18 advmod _ _ 16 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 18 nsubj:pass _ _ 17 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux:pass _ _ 18 forced force VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 advcl _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 resign resign VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 xcomp _ _ 21 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed form=decl, act=assert, voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **spend** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | | | | | time | with family | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is a** | present | | the official reason | | | | often *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **give** | participle | | the official reason *not said here* | | | | | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **force** | present · passive | | someone | | | | | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | | 5 | **resign** | to-infinitive | someone *not said here* | | | | | | vn resign-10.11-1 «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:22`. **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): R6-punct-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…, 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/20-debt-and-jobs/21/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: money and…, 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/20-debt-and-jobs/23/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/20-debt-and-jobs/)