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title: "Independent contractor" means a worker without the rights and benef… — Soft words for hard things: work, firing and the… · tree and pragmatics
description: "Independent contractor" means a worker without the rights and benefits of an employee, such as sick pay, holiday pay and a safe job (US). Who acts: Independent contractor. A sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: work, firing and the economy» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary 
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# Soft words for hard things: work, firing and the economy, sentence 23

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"Independent contractor" means a worker without the rights and benefits of an employee, such as sick pay, holiday pay and a safe job (US).

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**Who acts:** Independent contractor · **What happens:** mean · **To what, where:** worker

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: 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 (Independent contractor), 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:23
# text = "Independent contractor" means a worker without the rights and benefits of an employee, such as sick pay, holiday pay and a safe job (US).
# 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	_
2	Independent	independent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	contractor	contractor	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	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	worker	worker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	without	without	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	rights	right	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	benefits	benefit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	employee	employee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	20	case	_	_
18	as	as	ADP	IN	_	17	fixed	_	_
19	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	pay	pay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	holiday	holiday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	pay	pay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:appos
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	job	job	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
28	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	29	punct	_	_
29	US	US	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	appos	_	_
30	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	29	punct	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | Independent contractor | a worker |  |  |  | without the rights of a employee such sick pay and holiday pay and a safe job and benefits | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent worker=Topic |

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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.

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**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: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): R5-strong ×2, 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.

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