--- title: "A career-limiting move" is a joking name for a mistake that could g… — Soft words for hard things: work, firing and the… · tree and pragmatics description: "A career-limiting move" is a joking name for a mistake that could get you fired. Who acts: career-limiting move, mistake, you. A sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: work, firing and the economy and business and advertising» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school with its --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/22-jobs-shops-and-estate-agents/11/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Euphemisms](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/) / [Soft words for hard things: work, firi…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/22-jobs-shops-and-estate-agents/) / 11 # Soft words for hard things: work, firing and the economy and business and advertising, sentence 11 "A career-limiting move" is a joking name for a mistake that could get you fired. **Who acts:** career-limiting move, mistake, you · **What happens:** joke, be, get, fire · **To what, where:** joking name, you This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: work, firing and the economy and business and advertising» 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 (career-limiting move, mistake, you), 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:11 # text = "A career-limiting move" is a joking name for a mistake that could get you fired. # 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): no change 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ _ 2 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 career-limiting career-limiting ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 move move NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 5 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 joking joke VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 amod _ _ 9 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 10 for for ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 mistake mistake NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 13 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 15 nsubj _ _ 14 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 acl:relcl _ _ 16 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 fired fire VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 xcomp _ _ 18 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **joke** *speech: other* | gerund | | | | | | | vn chit\_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is a** | present | a career-limiting move | a joking name | | | | for a mistake | tree rules | | 3 | **get** | could | a mistake | you | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **fire** | participle | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: 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: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): no change. **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/22-jobs-shops-and-estate-agents/10/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: work, firi…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/22-jobs-shops-and-estate-agents/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/22-jobs-shops-and-estate-agents/)