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title: A first job is often small and part-time, like a Saturday job at six… — Money, work and the big choices · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. Who acts: first job, pension. A sentence of the lesson «Money, work and the big choices» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its depe
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# Money, work and the big choices, sentence 11

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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.

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**Who acts:** first job, pension · **What happens:** be, teach, take, earn · **To what, where:** instructions, own money

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Money, work and the big choices» 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 (first job, pension), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:adult-life:039-money-work-and-the-big-choices.lesson:11
# text = 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.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = adult-life
# lesson = 039-money-work-and-the-big-choices.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	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	amod	_	_
3	job	job	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	often	often	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	_
10	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	like	like	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	Saturday	Saturday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	job	job	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	sixteen	sixteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nmod	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	teaches	teach	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
21	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	cop	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	xcomp	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	parataxis	_	_
26	instructions	instruction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	earning	earn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	conj	_	_
29	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
30	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
32	.	.	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** | present | a first job |  |  |  |  | like a Saturday job at sixteen; often, small *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **teach** *speech: other* | present | pension |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | gerund | pension *not said here* |  |  |  | on time |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **take** | gerund |  | instructions |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent instruction=Theme |
| 5 | **earn** | gerund |  | your own money |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme |

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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:039-money-work-and-the-big-choices.lesson:11`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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