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title: Losing a job is not a sign that someone is lazy or bad; most job los… — Unemployment: when jobs are lost · tree and pragmatics
description: Losing a job is not a sign that someone is lazy or bad; most job losses come from changes the worker cannot control. Who acts: Losing, someone, most job losses, worker. A sentence of the lesson «Unemployment: when jobs are lost» of the money course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree a
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# Unemployment: when jobs are lost, sentence 17

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Losing a job is not a sign that someone is lazy or bad; most job losses come from changes the worker cannot control.

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**Who acts:** Losing, someone, most job losses, worker · **What happens:** lose, not be, be, come, not control · **To what, where:** job, sign, changes

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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 (Losing, someone, most job losses, worker), 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:17
# text = Losing a job is not a sign that someone is lazy or bad; most job losses come from changes the worker cannot control.
# 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 ×1
1	Losing	lose	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	csubj	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	job	job	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	sign	sign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	11	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	lazy	lazy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	acl	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	17	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBS:Degree=Sup
16	job	job	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	losses	loss	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
18	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	changes	change	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	worker	worker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
23	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
25	control	control	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	acl:relcl	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **lose** | gerund |  | a job |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Eventuality |
| 2 | **not** **is a** | present | Losing | a sign |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | someone | a sign *not said here* |  |  |  | lazy *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | someone *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **come** | present | most job losses |  |  | changes |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from change=Initial\_Location |
| 6 | **not** **control** | can | the worker | changes *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent change=Theme |

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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): R7-rel-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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