--- title: Being your own boss means freedom, but also risk: no boss shouting,… — The school fair, famous companies and being your… · tree and pragmatics description: Being your own boss means freedom, but also risk: no boss shouting, but no sick pay, long hours, and often a loss in the first year before any profit comes. Who acts: loss. A sentence of the lesson «The school fair, famous companies and being your own boss» of the money course of Mova's primary scho --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/32-the-school-fair-famous-companies-and-being-your-own-boss/3/) [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/) / [Money](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/) / [The school fair, famous companies and…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/32-the-school-fair-famous-companies-and-being-your-own-boss/) / 3 # The school fair, famous companies and being your own boss, sentence 3 Being your own boss means freedom, but also risk: no boss shouting, but no sick pay, long hours, and often a loss in the first year before any profit comes. **Who acts:** loss · **What happens:** be, mean, come · **To what, where:** own boss, freedom · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (loss), 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:3 # text = Being your own boss means freedom, but also risk: no boss shouting, but no sick pay, long hours, and often a loss in the first year before any profit comes. # 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 ×5 1 Being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 cop _ _ 2 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 3 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 boss boss NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 csubj _ _ 5 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 freedom freedom NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 but but CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 also also ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 risk risk NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:conj 11 : : PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 12 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 13 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:det 13 boss boss NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 shouting shouting NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 but but CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 17 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 19 det _ _ 18 sick sick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 pay pay NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 parataxis _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 conj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 25 often often ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=35:advmod 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 loss loss NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 28 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 31 amod _ _ 31 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 32 before before SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=34:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 33 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 34 det _ _ 34 profit profit NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:nmod 35 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | gerund | | your own boss | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **mean** | present | | freedom but risk | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent freedom=Topic | | 3 | **come** | present | a loss in the first year | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. 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