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title: Unemployment means not having a paid job when you want one; it can h… — Unemployment: when jobs are lost · tree and pragmatics
description: Unemployment means not having a paid job when you want one; it can happen to anyone, often through no fault of their own, when a factory closes, a shop shuts or times get hard. Who acts: Unemployment, you, it, factory. A sentence of the lesson «Unemployment: when jobs are lost» of the money course o
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# Unemployment: when jobs are lost, sentence 0

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Unemployment means not having a paid job when you want one; it can happen to anyone, often through no fault of their own, when a factory closes, a shop shuts or times get hard.

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**Who acts:** Unemployment, you, it, factory, shop, shuts · **What happens:** mean, not have, pay, want, happen, close · **To what, where:** paid job, one, fault · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Unemployment: when jobs are lost» 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 (Unemployment, you, it, factory), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:money:035-unemployment-when-jobs-are-lost.lesson:0
# text = Unemployment means not having a paid job when you want one; it can happen to anyone, often through no fault of their own, when a factory closes, a shop shuts or times get hard.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = money
# lesson = 035-unemployment-when-jobs-are-lost.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, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Unemployment	unemployment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	having	have	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	ccomp	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	paid	pay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
7	job	job	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
11	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	obj	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	15	obl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	often	often	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
20	through	through	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	22	det	_	_
22	fault	fault	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	nmod	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	30	advmod	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	factory	factory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
30	closes	close	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=34:det
33	shop	shop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=34:compound
34	shuts	shut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nsubj	_	_
35	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	conj	_	_
37	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	conj	_	_
38	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	xcomp	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | Unemployment |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **have** | gerund |  | a paid job |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Patient |
| 3 | **pay** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **want** | present | you | one |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot one=Theme |
| 5 | **happen** | can | it |  |  | no fault of their own |  | to anyone | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through fault=Location |
| 6 | **close** | present | a factory |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 7 | **shut** |  | a shop |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **get** | present | shuts or times |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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.

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