--- title: "Garden leave" means being paid to stay at home, away from work, unt… — Soft words for hard things: work, firing and the… · tree and pragmatics description: "Garden leave" means being paid to stay at home, away from work, until the notice period ends; the notice period is the last few weeks of a job after you have been told it will end (UK). Who acts: Garden leave, notice period, period. 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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 (Garden leave, notice period, period), 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:11 # text = "Garden leave" means being paid to stay at home, away from work, until the notice period ends; the notice period is the last few weeks of a job after you have been told it will end (UK). # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ _ 2 Garden Garden PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 leave leave NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 5 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 aux:pass _ _ 7 paid pay VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 ccomp _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 stay stay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:advcl 10 at at ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 away away ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 14 from from ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 work work NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 17 until until SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 notice notice NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 period period NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 ends end VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 notice notice NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 period period NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 28 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 29 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 weeks week NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 31 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 job job NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ _ 34 after after SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 35 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj:pass _ _ 36 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 37 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 38 aux:pass _ _ 38 told tell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 30 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:advcl 39 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 40 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 41 aux _ _ 41 end end VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 38 ccomp _ _ 42 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 43 punct _ _ 43 UK UK PROPN NNP Number=Sing 41 parataxis _ _ 44 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 43 punct _ _ 45 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | Garden leave | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **pay** | gerund · passive | | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **stay** | to-infinitive | | | | home | | away *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=Location | | 4 | **end** | present | the notice period | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 5 | **is a** | present | the notice period | the last few weeks | | | | of a job | tree rules | | 6 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present · perfect · passive | | you | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | | 7 | **end** | future | period | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | 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:11`. **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, 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: work, firi…, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/21-work-firing-and-the-economy/10/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: work, firi…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/21-work-firing-and-the-economy/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/21-work-firing-and-the-economy/)