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title: "Taking a career break" means not working for a while, often because… — Soft words for hard things: work, firing and the… · tree and pragmatics
description: "Taking a career break" means not working for a while, often because there is no job. Who acts: Taking, job. A sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: work, firing and the economy» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# Soft words for hard things: work, firing and the economy, sentence 6

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"Taking a career break" means not working for a while, often because there is no job.

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**Who acts:** Taking, job · **What happens:** take, mean, not work, be · **To what, where:** career break · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Taking, job), 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:6
# text = "Taking a career break" means not working for a while, often because there is no job.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:advcl
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	career	career	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	break	break	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
7	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	working	work	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	xcomp	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	while	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
14	often	often	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
15	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	17	expl	_	_
17	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
18	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	19	det	_	_
19	job	job	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9: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 | **take** *in a quote* | gerund |  | a career break |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent break=Theme |
| 2 | **mean** | present | Taking |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **not** **work** *not said to happen* | gerund | Taking *not said here* |  |  |  | while |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **be** | present | no job |  |  | there |  | often *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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**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 ×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/).

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