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title: A pay rise is an increase in pay; some come each year, others have t… — Finding a job and getting on · tree and pragmatics
description: A pay rise is an increase in pay; some come each year, others have to be asked for. Who acts: pay rise, some, others. A sentence of the lesson «Finding a job and getting on» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Finding a job and getting on, sentence 12

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A pay rise is an increase in pay; some come each year, others have to be asked for.

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**Who acts:** pay rise, some, others · **What happens:** be, come, have, ask · **To what, where:** increase, pay

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Finding a job and getting on» 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 (pay rise, some, others), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:adult-life:003-finding-a-job-and-getting-on.lesson:12
# text = A pay rise is an increase in pay; some come each year, others have to be asked for.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = adult-life
# lesson = 003-finding-a-job-and-getting-on.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): R8-pos-agree ×2
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	pay	pay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	rise	rise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	increase	increase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	pay	pay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
10	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	11	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Ind
11	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
12	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	det	_	_
13	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl:unmarked	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:NNS:Number=Plur|PronType=Ind
16	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	asked	ask	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	xcomp	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	obl	_	_
21	.	.	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 | a pay rise | a increase |  | pay |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | present | some |  |  |  | year |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | present | others |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | to-infinitive · passive | others *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V» |

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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:adult-life:003-finding-a-job-and-getting-on.lesson:12`.

**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): R8-pos-agree ×2. **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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