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title: How someone works decides when they sleep, when they are home, how s… — Shifts, nights and other ways of working · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. Who acts: someone, kids, money. A sentence of the lesson «Shifts, nights and other ways of working» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with it
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# Shifts, nights and other ways of working, sentence 3

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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.

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**Who acts:** someone, kids, money · **What happens:** work, decide, sleep, be, come off, reach · **To what, where:** pay, bank · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (someone, kids, money), 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:3
# text = 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.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	3	nsubj	_	_
3	works	work	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	csubj	_	_
4	decides	decide	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	sleep	sleep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	home	home	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	15	advmod	_	_
15	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	22	nsubj	_	_
22	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
23	off	off	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
24	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	pay	pay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
26	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	reaches	reach	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **work** | present | someone |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **decide** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **sleep** | present | kids *= kid* |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | present | kids *= kid* |  |  |  |  | home *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | present | the money |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **come off** | present |  | kids's pay |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **reach** | present | money | the bank |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent bank=Theme |
| 8 | **pay** |  | kids *= kid* |  |  |  |  |  | nom pay «possession transitive»: poss=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): 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.

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