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title: When a factory closes, local shops suffer too: 500 workers on £500 a… — Unemployment: when jobs are lost · tree and pragmatics
description: When a factory closes, local shops suffer too: 500 workers on £500 a week means 500 × £500 = £250,000 less to spend each week. Who acts: factory, local shops, 500 workers. A sentence of the lesson «Unemployment: when jobs are lost» of the money course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tre
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# Unemployment: when jobs are lost, sentence 6

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When a factory closes, local shops suffer too: 500 workers on £500 a week means 500 × £500 = £250,000 less to spend each week.

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**Who acts:** factory, local shops, 500 workers · **What happens:** close, suffer, mean, spend

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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 (factory, local shops, 500 workers), 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:6
# text = When a factory closes, local shops suffer too: 500 workers on £500 a week means 500 × £500 = £250,000 less to spend each week.
# 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 ×2
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	factory	factory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	closes	close	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	local	local	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	shops	shop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	suffer	suffer	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	parataxis	_	_
9	too	too	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
11	500	500	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	workers	worker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	£	£	SYM	$	_	12	nmod	_	_
15	500	500	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod:unmarked	_	_
18	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	500	500	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	×	×	SYM	SYM	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
21	£	£	SYM	$	_	20	nmod	_	_
22	500	500	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
23	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	18	ccomp	_	_
24	£	£	SYM	$	_	26	nsubj	_	_
25	250,000	250,000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	flat	_	_
26	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	23	ccomp	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	spend	spend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:acl
29	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	30	det	_	_
30	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18: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 | **close** | present | a factory |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **suffer** | present | local shops |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **mean** | present | 500 workers |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **spend** | to-infinitive | 500 workers *not said here* |  |  |  | week |  | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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:6`.

**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 ×2. **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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