--- title: Shifts, nights and other ways of working — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Shifts, nights and other ways of working», a lesson of the adult life course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Not every grown-up works nine to five in an office; many work shifts, nights, part-time, for themselves, or in two jobs at onc --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/2-shifts-nights-and-other-ways-of-working/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Adult life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/) / Shifts, nights and other ways of working # Shifts, nights and other ways of working Lesson 2 of the adult life course of Mova's primary school: 17 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/adult-life/2-shifts-nights-and-other-ways-of-working/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/2-shifts-nights-and-other-ways-of-working/0/) — Not every grown-up works nine to five in an office; many work shifts, nights, part-time, for themselves, or in two jobs at once. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/2-shifts-nights-and-other-ways-of-working/1/) — Shops, hospitals, buses and factories need people at all hours, so their workers follow a rota that can change every week. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/2-shifts-nights-and-other-ways-of-working/2/) — Picture a house in Cork at lunchtime on a Saturday: the kids tiptoe past the bedroom door, whispering "Shh, Dad's on nights", because he drove a delivery lorry until six this morning. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/2-shifts-nights-and-other-ways-of-working/3/) — How someone works decides when they sleep, when they are home, how sure the money is, and what comes off their pay before it reaches the bank. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/2-shifts-nights-and-other-ways-of-working/4/) — Knowing this helps you understand why a family's week is planned round a piece of paper on the fridge. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/2-shifts-nights-and-other-ways-of-working/5/) — A rota shows someone's shifts, set blocks of working hours that can change every week, so family plans have to fit round it. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/2-shifts-nights-and-other-ways-of-working/6/) — Night shifts mean working through the night and sleeping in the day; nurses, drivers, bakers and warehouse workers often do them. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/2-shifts-nights-and-other-ways-of-working/8/) — Overtime is working extra hours beyond the normal ones; sometimes it is paid at a higher rate, sometimes not paid at all. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/2-shifts-nights-and-other-ways-of-working/9/) — Self-employed people work for themselves, like many plumbers and hairdressers; they choose their hours but get no sick pay or holiday pay and must work out and pay their own tax. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/2-shifts-nights-and-other-ways-of-working/10/) — On a zero-hours contract the employer promises no set number of hours, so the hours and the pay can change every week. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/2-shifts-nights-and-other-ways-of-working/11/) — When someone is too ill to work they call in sick; some employers keep paying them, some pay only a little, and the self-employed get nothing. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/2-shifts-nights-and-other-ways-of-working/12/) — Some people go to work ill because they can't afford to lose the pay, which spreads germs to everyone else. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/2-shifts-nights-and-other-ways-of-working/13/) — Annual leave is paid holiday from work; most full-time workers get a few weeks of it a year, bank holidays included. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/2-shifts-nights-and-other-ways-of-working/15/) — A payslip shows what someone earned and what came off before the money reached the bank, mostly tax, which pays for schools, hospitals and roads. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/2-shifts-nights-and-other-ways-of-working/16/) — Gross pay is the big number at the top of the payslip; net or take-home pay is what is actually left to spend. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/2-shifts-nights-and-other-ways-of-working/17/) — Part-time means working fewer hours than a full week, for example to look after children, to study, or for health; it means less pay but more time. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/2-shifts-nights-and-other-ways-of-working/18/) — Some people take a second job because low pay or rising prices make one job not enough, which leaves very little time to rest. - ← previous: [A day at a grown-up's job](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/1-a-day-at-a-grown-ups-job/) - next →: [Finding a job and getting on](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/3-finding-a-job-and-getting-on/) - ↑ back to [Adult life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/)