--- title: "Between jobs" means unemployed. — Soft words for hard things: money and poverty an… · tree and pragmatics description: "Between jobs" means unemployed. 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 of every clause. --- [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/23/) [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/) / 23 # Soft words for hard things: money and poverty and work, firing and the economy, sentence 23 "Between jobs" means unemployed. **What happens:** mean 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: 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:23 # text = "Between jobs" means unemployed. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct 2 Between between ADP IN _ 3 case _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:compound|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 3 jobs job NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:nsubj 4 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 5 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 unemployed unemployed ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 xcomp _ _ 7 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | | | | | | between jobs; unemployed *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: 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:23`. **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, R7-rel-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…, 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/20-debt-and-jobs/22/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: money and…, 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/20-debt-and-jobs/24/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/20-debt-and-jobs/)