--- title: For example, "We are streamlining the team" from a manager usually m… — Soft words for hard things: money and poverty an… · tree and pragmatics description: For example, "We are streamlining the team" from a manager usually means some people are about to lose their jobs. Who acts: We, people. 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 it --- [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/4/) [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/) / 4 # Soft words for hard things: money and poverty and work, firing and the economy, sentence 4 For example, "We are streamlining the team" from a manager usually means some people are about to lose their jobs. **Who acts:** We, people · **What happens:** streamline, mean, be, job · **To what, where:** team, manager · **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 (We, people), 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:4 # text = For example, "We are streamlining the team" from a manager usually means some people are about to lose their jobs. # 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, R6-punct-agree ×3 1 For for ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 example example NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 " " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct 5 We we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 6 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 7 streamlining streamline VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 team team NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 " " PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct 11 from from ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 manager manager NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:nsubj 14 usually usually ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 16 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 17 det _ _ 17 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 18 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 19 about about ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 20 to to PART TO _ 21 mark _ _ 21 lose lose VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 ccomp _ _ 22 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 jobs job NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **streamline** *in a quote* | present · progressive | We | the team | | a manager | | for example | tree rules | | 2 | **mean** | present | | | | | | usually *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **is** *not said to happen* | present | some people | | | | | about, lose *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **job** | | people | | | | | | nom job «act intransitive»: poss=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:4`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×3. **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…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/20-debt-and-jobs/3/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: money and…, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/20-debt-and-jobs/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/20-debt-and-jobs/)