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title: Finding a job can take time: 20 job applications with 2 replies is 1… — Unemployment: when jobs are lost · tree and pragmatics
description: Finding a job can take time: 20 job applications with 2 replies is 1 reply in 10; an interview is a meeting to see if you get the job. Who acts: Finding, interview, you. A sentence of the lesson «Unemployment: when jobs are lost» of the money course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree 
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# Unemployment: when jobs are lost, sentence 8

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Finding a job can take time: 20 job applications with 2 replies is 1 reply in 10; an interview is a meeting to see if you get the job.

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**Who acts:** Finding, interview, you · **What happens:** find, take, be, see, get · **To what, where:** job, 1 reply, 10, meeting

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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 (Finding, interview, you), 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:8
# text = Finding a job can take time: 20 job applications with 2 replies is 1 reply in 10; an interview is a meeting to see if you get the job.
# 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	Finding	find	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	csubj	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	job	job	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
8	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
9	job	job	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	applications	application	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	appos	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	replies	reply	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	reply	reply	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	nmod	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	interview	interview	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	meeting	meeting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:conj
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	acl	_	_
27	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
28	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	advcl	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	job	job	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **find** | gerund |  | a job |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Topic |
| 2 | **take** | can | Finding |  |  |  | time |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | present |  | 1 reply |  | 10 |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | present | a interview | a meeting |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **see** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **get** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | the job |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer job=Stimulus |

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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:8`.

**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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