--- title: Picture the news saying a big factory is closing and 500 people will… — Unemployment: when jobs are lost · tree and pragmatics description: Picture the news saying a big factory is closing and 500 people will lose their jobs: if each earned £500 a week, the town loses 500 × £500 = £250,000 of spending every week, so local shops and cafés suffer too. Who acts: you, big factory, 500 people, each. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, big factory, 500 people, each), 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:1 # text = Picture the news saying a big factory is closing and 500 people will lose their jobs: if each earned £500 a week, the town loses 500 × £500 = £250,000 of spending every week, so local shops and cafés suffer too. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×3 1 Picture picture VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 saying say VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 1 xcomp _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 factory factory NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 closing close VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 ccomp _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 11 500 500 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 12 nummod _ _ 12 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 13 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 lose lose VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ _ 15 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 jobs job NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 17 : : PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 18 if if SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 19 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 20 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:det 20 earned earn VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 1 advcl _ _ 21 £ £ SYM $ _ 20 obj _ _ 22 500 500 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 21 nummod _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 week week NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl:unmarked _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 town town NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 28 loses lose VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 29 500 500 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 30 nummod _ _ 30 × × NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 £ £ SYM $ _ 28 obj _ _ 32 500 500 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 31 nummod _ _ 33 = = SYM SYM _ 34 case _ _ 34 £ £ X GW _ 31 conj _ _ 35 250,000 250,000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 34 flat _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 37 case _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=37:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_ 37 spending spending NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=34:advcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 38 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 39 det _ _ 39 week week NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ _ 40 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 41 so so ADV RB _ 46 advmod _ _ 42 local local ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 43 shops shop NOUN NNS Number=Plur 46 nsubj _ _ 44 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 45 cafés café NOUN NNS Number=Plur 43 conj _ _ 46 suffer suffer VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 47 too too ADV RB _ 46 advmod _ _ 48 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **picture** | imperative | you *not said here* | the news | | | | | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent news=Theme clause=Attribute | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **close** | present · progressive | a big factory | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **lose** | future | 500 people | people's jobs | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Eventuality | | 5 | **earn** *a condition, not said to happen* | participle | each | | | | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent £=Theme | | 6 | **lose** | present | the town | 500 × | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **suffer** | present | local shops and cafés | | | | | | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 8 | **job** | | people | | | | | | nom job «act intransitive»: poss=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:money:035-unemployment-when-jobs-are-lost.lesson:1`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×3. **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: [Unemployment: when jobs are lost, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/35-unemployment-when-jobs-are-lost/0/) - next →: [Unemployment: when jobs are lost, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/35-unemployment-when-jobs-are-lost/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/35-unemployment-when-jobs-are-lost/)