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title: Self-employed people work for themselves; a week off ill can mean £0… — The school fair, famous companies and being your… · tree and pragmatics
description: Self-employed people work for themselves; a week off ill can mean £0 that week, while an employed worker often gets sick pay. Who acts: employed people, week, employed worker. A sentence of the lesson «The school fair, famous companies and being your own boss» of the money course of Mova's primary s
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# The school fair, famous companies and being your own boss, sentence 11

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Self-employed people work for themselves; a week off ill can mean £0 that week, while an employed worker often gets sick pay.

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**Who acts:** employed people, week, employed worker · **What happens:** employ, work, mean, get · **To what, where:** sick pay

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The school fair, famous companies and being your own boss» of the money 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 (employed people, week, employed worker), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:money:032-the-school-fair-famous-companies-and-being-your-own-boss.lesson:11
# text = Self-employed people work for themselves; a week off ill can mean £0 that week, while an employed worker often gets sick pay.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = money
# lesson = 032-the-school-fair-famous-companies-and-being-your-own-boss.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, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Self	self	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	_
3	employed	employ	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	amod	_	_
4	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	work	work	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	5	obl	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
11	off	off	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
13	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	mean	mean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
15	£	£	SYM	$	_	14	obj	_	_
16	0	0	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
17	that	that	DET	DT	PronType=Dem	18	det	_	_
18	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl:unmarked	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
20	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
21	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	employed	employ	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	amod	_	_
23	worker	worker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
24	often	often	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
26	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	pay	pay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14: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 | **employ** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **work** | present | employed people |  |  |  |  | for people | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for themselves=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **mean** | can | a week  ill |  |  |  | week |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent £=Topic |
| 4 | **employ** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **get** | present | a employed worker | sick pay |  |  |  | often *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pay=Stimulus |

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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:money:032-the-school-fair-famous-companies-and-being-your-own-boss.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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-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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