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title: The economy goes up and down like a slow wave: in a boom jobs are ea… — Unemployment: when jobs are lost · tree and pragmatics
description: The economy goes up and down like a slow wave: in a boom jobs are easy to find, and in a recession the country makes and spends less for a while and jobs get scarcer. Who acts: economy, boom jobs, country, jobs. A sentence of the lesson «Unemployment: when jobs are lost» of the money course of Mova'
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# Unemployment: when jobs are lost, sentence 2

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The economy goes up and down like a slow wave: in a boom jobs are easy to find, and in a recession the country makes and spends less for a while and jobs get scarcer.

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**Who acts:** economy, boom jobs, country, jobs · **What happens:** go up, be, find, make, spend, get · **To what, where:** recession

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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 (economy, boom jobs, country, jobs), 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:2
# text = The economy goes up and down like a slow wave: in a boom jobs are easy to find, and in a recession the country makes and spends less for a while and jobs get scarcer.
# 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 ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	economy	economy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	down	down	ADV	RB	_	4	conj	_	_
7	like	like	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	slow	slow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	wave	wave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:obl
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
12	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	boom	boom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	jobs	job	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
16	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	easy	easy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:csubj
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	recession	recession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	spends	spend	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	_
30	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	29	advmod	_	_
31	for	for	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	while	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
35	jobs	job	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nsubj	_	_
36	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
37	scarcer	scarce	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	36	xcomp	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **go up** | present | the economy |  |  |  |  | like a slow wave | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **is** | present | a boom jobs |  |  |  |  | easy *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **find** | to-infinitive | a boom jobs *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **make** | present | the country |  |  | a recession |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 5 | **spend** | present | the country *not said here* |  |  |  | while | less *property* | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **get** | present | jobs |  |  |  |  | scarce *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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**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:2`.

**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 ×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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