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title: Looking for work can be long and upsetting, and family and friends r… — Unemployment: when jobs are lost · tree and pragmatics
description: Looking for work can be long and upsetting, and family and friends really help; how much the government should help people out of work is something grown-ups disagree about, though both sides want people to be okay. Who acts: Looking, family, government, grown ups. A sentence of the lesson «Unemploy
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# Unemployment: when jobs are lost, sentence 4

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Looking for work can be long and upsetting, and family and friends really help; how much the government should help people out of work is something grown-ups disagree about, though both sides want people to be okay.

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**Who acts:** Looking, family, government, grown ups, sides, people · **What happens:** look, be, help, grow, disagree, want · **To what, where:** much, work, something, people

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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 (Looking, family, government, grown ups), 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:4
# text = Looking for work can be long and upsetting, and family and friends really help; how much the government should help people out of work is something grown-ups disagree about, though both sides want people to be okay.
# 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	Looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	csubj	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
6	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	conj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	upsetting	upsetting	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
11	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
14	really	really	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	help	help	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
17	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	18	advmod	_	_
18	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	obj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
21	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
23	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
24	out	out	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
27	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
28	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	32	obl	_	_
29	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	amod	_	_
30	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	_
31	ups	up	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
32	disagree	disagree	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
33	about	about	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
35	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
36	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	37	det	_	_
37	sides	side	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	nsubj	_	_
38	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=32:conj
39	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	obj	_	_
40	to	to	PART	TO	_	42	mark	_	_
41	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	42	cop	_	_
42	okay	okay	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	xcomp	_	_
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=32: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 | **look** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | for work | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for work=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | can | Looking |  |  |  |  | long *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | Looking *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **help** | present | family and friends |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **help** | should | the government | much |  | work |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **is a** | present |  | something |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **grow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **disagree** | present | grown ups |  |  |  |  | about *property* | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **want** | present | both sides | people |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot people=Theme |
| 10 | **is** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  | okay *property* | tree rules |

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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): 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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