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title: University means studying a subject for a few years and often leaves… — Money, work and the big choices · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. Who acts: University, apprenticeship. A sentence of the lesson «Money, work and the big choices» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with it
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# Money, work and the big choices, sentence 16

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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.

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**Who acts:** University, apprenticeship · **What happens:** mean, study, leave, learn, pay · **To what, where:** subject, big loan, job, work · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (University, apprenticeship), 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:16
# text = 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.
# 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	University	University	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	studying	study	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:ccomp
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	subject	subject	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	often	often	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	leaves	leave	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	loan	loan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
17	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	apprenticeship	apprenticeship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
20	learning	learn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	ccomp	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	job	job	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
26	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	paid	pay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	advcl	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **mean** | present | University |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **study** *not said to happen* | gerund | University *not said here* | a subject |  |  | year |  | vn learn-14-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Topic |
| 3 | **leave** | present | University *not said here* | a big loan |  |  |  | often *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent loan=Theme |
| 4 | **mean** | present | a apprenticeship |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **learn** | gerund |  | a job |  | work |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Topic |
| 6 | **pay** | gerund · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP» |

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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.

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

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