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title: Furlough was government help in 2020, during the pandemic, paying pa… — Unemployment: when jobs are lost · tree and pragmatics
description: Furlough was government help in 2020, during the pandemic, paying part of the wages of people who couldn't work: £8 of every £10, so £1,000 of pay became £800. Who acts: Furlough, government help, people, pay. A sentence of the lesson «Unemployment: when jobs are lost» of the money course of Mova's 
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# Unemployment: when jobs are lost, sentence 10

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Furlough was government help in 2020, during the pandemic, paying part of the wages of people who couldn't work: £8 of every £10, so £1,000 of pay became £800.

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**Who acts:** Furlough, government help, people, pay · **What happens:** be, pay, not work, become · **To what, where:** government help, 2020, part

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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 (Furlough, government help, people, pay), 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:10
# text = Furlough was government help in 2020, during the pandemic, paying part of the wages of people who couldn't work: £8 of every £10, so £1,000 of pay became £800.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Furlough	furlough	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	2020	2020	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	during	during	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	pandemic	pandemic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct
12	paying	pay	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
13	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	wages	wage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
19	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
20	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
22	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	acl:relcl	_	_
23	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
24	£	£	SYM	$	_	4	nmod	_	_
25	8	8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	28	det	_	_
28	£	£	SYM	$	_	25	nmod	_	_
29	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	28	nummod	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	so	so	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	£	£	SYM	$	_	24	conj	_	_
33	1,000	1000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	32	nummod	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	pay	pay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
36	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	advcl	_	_
37	£	£	SYM	$	_	36	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=36:obj
38	800	800	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	37	nummod	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **is a** | past | Furlough | government help |  | 2020 | during the pandemic |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **pay** | gerund | government help *not said here* | part of the wages of people |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Asset |
| 3 | **not** **work** | could | people |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **become** | past | pay |  |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

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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:035-unemployment-when-jobs-are-lost.lesson:10`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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