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title: "Efficiency gains" often means fewer staff doing the same work. — Soft words for hard things: work, firing and the… · tree and pragmatics
description: "Efficiency gains" often means fewer staff doing the same work. Who acts: Efficiency gains, fewer staff. 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 dependency tree and the
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# Soft words for hard things: work, firing and the economy and business and advertising, sentence 12

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"Efficiency gains" often means fewer staff doing the same work.

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**Who acts:** Efficiency gains, fewer staff · **What happens:** mean, do · **To what, where:** fewer staff, same work

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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 (Efficiency gains, fewer staff), 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:12
# text = "Efficiency gains" often means fewer staff doing the same work.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	_
2	Efficiency	efficiency	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	gains	gain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
5	often	often	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	fewer	few	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	amod	_	_
8	staff	staff	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
9	doing	do	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | Efficiency gains | fewer staff |  |  |  | often *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent staff=Topic |
| 2 | **do** | gerund | fewer staff *not said here* | the same work |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality |

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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): R8-pos-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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