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title: Gross pay is the big number at the top of the payslip; net or take-h… — Shifts, nights and other ways of working · tree and pragmatics
description: Gross pay is the big number at the top of the payslip; net or take-home pay is what is actually left to spend. Who acts: Gross pay, net, top. A sentence of the lesson «Shifts, nights and other ways of working» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Shifts, nights and other ways of working, sentence 16

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Gross pay is the big number at the top of the payslip; net or take-home pay is what is actually left to spend.

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**Who acts:** Gross pay, net, top · **What happens:** be, take, spend · **To what, where:** big number, top, home pay

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Shifts, nights and other ways of working» of the adult life 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 (Gross pay, net, top), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:adult-life:002-shifts-nights-and-other-ways-of-working.lesson:16
# text = Gross pay is the big number at the top of the payslip; net or take-home pay is what is actually left to spend.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = adult-life
# lesson = 002-shifts-nights-and-other-ways-of-working.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): no change
1	Gross	gross	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	pay	pay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	payslip	payslip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	net	net	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	acl	_	_
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	_
18	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	pay	pay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
21	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux:pass	_	_
23	actually	actually	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	spend	spend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
27	.	.	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 | Gross pay | the big number |  | the top of the payslip and net |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **take** | infinitive | net *not said here* | home pay |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pay=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present · passive |  | the top of the payslip and net |  |  |  | actually, leave *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **spend** | to-infinitive | the top of the payslip and net *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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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**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): no change. **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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