--- title: Losing a job is painful and frightening, so bosses, newspapers and g… — Soft words for hard things: work, firing and the… · tree and pragmatics description: Losing a job is painful and frightening, so bosses, newspapers and governments reach for soft words when they talk about it. Who acts: Losing, bosses. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Losing, bosses), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:euphemisms:021-work-firing-and-the-economy.lesson:0 # text = Losing a job is painful and frightening, so bosses, newspapers and governments reach for soft words when they talk about it. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = euphemisms # lesson = 021-work-firing-and-the-economy.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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Losing lose VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 csubj _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 job job NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 painful painful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 frightening frightening ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 conj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 9 so so ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 10 bosses boss NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 newspapers newspaper NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 conj _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 governments government NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 conj _ _ 15 reach reach VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 16 for for ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ _ 19 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 21 advmod _ _ 20 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 talk talk VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:conj 22 about about ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obl _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lose** | gerund | | a job | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Eventuality | | 2 | **is** | present | Losing | | | | | painful *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **be** | | Losing *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **reach** | present | bosses and newspapers and governments | | | | | for soft words | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **talk** | present | bosses *= boss* | | | | | about job | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic | 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:021-work-firing-and-the-economy.lesson:0`. **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): R7-rel-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…, 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/20-debt-and-jobs/24/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: work, firi…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/21-work-firing-and-the-economy/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/21-work-firing-and-the-economy/)