--- title: Money, work and the big choices — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Money, work and the big choices», a lesson of the adult life course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Growing up brings big choices: how to look after money, what work to do, which exams and courses to take, when to learn to drive and wh --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/39-money-work-and-the-big-choices/) [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/) / Money, work and the big choices # Money, work and the big choices Lesson 39 of the adult life course of Mova's primary school: 19 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/39-money-work-and-the-big-choices/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/39-money-work-and-the-big-choices/0/) — Growing up brings big choices: how to look after money, what work to do, which exams and courses to take, when to learn to drive and whom to vote for. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/39-money-work-and-the-big-choices/1/) — None of them is made in one day; people save bit by bit, start with small jobs, revise for weeks and change their minds as they learn what they like. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/39-money-work-and-the-big-choices/2/) — Vivid example: in Toronto, big sister Maya opens her first pay slip from the cinema, shouts "I'm RICH!", then goes quiet: "Hang on, where's the rest? - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/39-money-work-and-the-big-choices/3/) — What's all this tax?" Dad laughs and explains where the missing money went. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/39-money-work-and-the-big-choices/4/) — The money taken off pays for schools, hospitals and roads, and some is saved for when she is old. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/39-money-work-and-the-big-choices/5/) — Knowing how money, work and choices really work now makes the big steps much less scary later. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/39-money-work-and-the-big-choices/6/) — A bank account keeps your money safe; a savings account pays you a little extra, called interest, for leaving money in it. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/39-money-work-and-the-big-choices/7/) — Small spends like coffees and snacks add up fast; managing money means knowing what comes in and what goes out. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/39-money-work-and-the-big-choices/8/) — Saving means putting money aside now for something bigger later, or for emergencies like a broken boiler. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/39-money-work-and-the-big-choices/9/) — A payslip shows what you earned and what was taken off, such as tax and pension, before the rest reached your bank. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/39-money-work-and-the-big-choices/10/) — Tax pays for schools, hospitals and roads; a pension is money saved for when you are old. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/39-money-work-and-the-big-choices/11/) — A first job is often small and part-time, like a Saturday job at sixteen; it teaches being on time, taking instructions and earning your own money. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/39-money-work-and-the-big-choices/12/) — A CV is a short, honest document about your skills, results and work, which employers read to decide whom to meet. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/39-money-work-and-the-big-choices/13/) — An interview is a meeting where an employer asks questions to see if you suit a job, and you see if the job suits you; most people don't get every job they try for. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/39-money-work-and-the-big-choices/14/) — Exams like GCSEs and A levels open doors later, but people who do badly can retake them or find other routes; steady work beats panicking the night before. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/39-money-work-and-the-big-choices/15/) — Choosing a job means thinking about what you enjoy, what you're good at and what pays enough; many adults change jobs or careers more than once. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/39-money-work-and-the-big-choices/16/) — University means studying a subject for a few years and often leaves a big loan; an apprenticeship means learning a job at work while being paid. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/39-money-work-and-the-big-choices/17/) — In the UK you can start learning to drive at seventeen and must pass a theory test and a practical test; L plates show a learner. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/39-money-work-and-the-big-choices/18/) — Voting is choosing who runs the country or the local council; in the UK most people can vote from eighteen, and grown-ups are allowed to disagree about whom to vote for. - ← previous: [Looking after yourself and a home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/38-looking-after-yourself-and-a-home/) - next →: [Being a good grown-up](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/40-being-a-good-grown-up/) - ↑ back to [Adult life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/)