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title: Knowing how money, work and choices really work now makes the big st… — Money, work and the big choices · tree and pragmatics
description: Knowing how money, work and choices really work now makes the big steps much less scary later. Who acts: money, Knowing. A sentence of the lesson «Money, work and the big choices» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Money, work and the big choices, sentence 5

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Knowing how money, work and choices really work now makes the big steps much less scary later.

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**Who acts:** money, Knowing · **What happens:** know, work, make · **To what, where:** big steps · **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 (money, Knowing), 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:5
# text = Knowing how money, work and choices really work now makes the big steps much less scary later.
# 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): R5-strong ×2
1	Knowing	know	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	csubj	_	_
2	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
3	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:nsubj
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	choices	choice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
8	really	really	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	work	work	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	ccomp	_	_
10	now	now	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:advmod
11	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	steps	step	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
15	much	much	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	17	advmod	_	_
17	scary	scary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	_
18	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	11	advmod	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **work** | present | money and work and choices |  |  |  | now |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **make** | present | Knowing | the big steps |  |  |  | late, scary *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset step=Product |

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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): R5-strong ×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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