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title: The unemployment rate is the percentage of people looking for work w… — Unemployment: when jobs are lost · tree and pragmatics
description: The unemployment rate is the percentage of people looking for work who don't have it; 4% means 4 out of every 100. Who acts: unemployment rate, people. A sentence of the lesson «Unemployment: when jobs are lost» of the money course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# Unemployment: when jobs are lost, sentence 7

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The unemployment rate is the percentage of people looking for work who don't have it; 4% means 4 out of every 100.

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**Who acts:** unemployment rate, people · **What happens:** be, look, not have, mean · **To what, where:** percentage, rate, 4, 100

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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 (unemployment rate, people), 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:7
# text = The unemployment rate is the percentage of people looking for work who don't have it; 4% means 4 out of every 100.
# 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
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	unemployment	unemployment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	rate	rate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	percentage	percentage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
9	looking	look	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
12	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
13	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:acl:relcl
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	parataxis	_	_
21	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	obj	_	_
22	out	out	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	25	det	_	_
25	100	100	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	nmod	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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** | present | the unemployment rate | the percentage |  |  |  | of people | tree rules |
| 2 | **look** | gerund | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for work | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for work=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **have** | present · do-support | people | rate |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 4 | **mean** | present |  | 4 |  | every 100 |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 4=Topic |

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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:7`.

**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. **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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