--- title: "On the bench" means a consultant (a hired expert who works on proje… — Soft words for hard things: work, firing and the… · tree and pragmatics description: "On the bench" means a consultant (a hired expert who works on projects for other firms) has no project to work on. Who acts: hired expert, consultant. 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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 (hired expert, consultant), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:euphemisms:022-jobs-shops-and-estate-agents.lesson:10 # text = "On the bench" means a consultant (a hired expert who works on projects for other firms) has no project to work on. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = euphemisms # lesson = 022-jobs-shops-and-estate-agents.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 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ _ 2 On on ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 bench bench NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 5 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 6 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 consultant consultant NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 9 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 12 punct _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 hired hire VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 amod _ _ 12 expert expert NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 appos _ _ 13 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 14 nsubj _ _ 14 works work VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 acl:relcl _ _ 15 on on ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 projects project NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl _ _ 17 for for ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 firms firm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nmod _ _ 20 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 12 punct _ _ 21 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 ccomp _ _ 22 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 23 det _ _ 23 project project NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 25 work work VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 acl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:xcomp 26 on on ADP RP _ 25 compound:prt _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | | | | the bench | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **hire** | participle | | | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **work** | present | a hired expert | | | | | on projects for other firms | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on project=Theme | | 4 | **have** | present | a consultant | no project | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent project=Patient | | 5 | **work on** | to-infinitive | a consultant *not said here* | no project *not said here* | | | | | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=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:022-jobs-shops-and-estate-agents.lesson:10`. **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. **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…, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/22-jobs-shops-and-estate-agents/9/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: work, firi…, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/22-jobs-shops-and-estate-agents/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/22-jobs-shops-and-estate-agents/)