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title: Most of a family's money comes from pay for work, either wages by th… — Where money comes from · tree and pragmatics
description: Most of a family's money comes from pay for work, either wages by the hour or a salary for the year, arriving on payday. Who acts: Most, wages. A sentence of the lesson «Where money comes from» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# Where money comes from, sentence 0

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Most of a family's money comes from pay for work, either wages by the hour or a salary for the year, arriving on payday.

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**Who acts:** Most, wages · **What happens:** come, arrive · **To what, where:** pay, payday

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Where money comes from» 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 (Most, wages), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:adult-life:005-where-money-comes-from.lesson:0
# text = Most of a family's money comes from pay for work, either wages by the hour or a salary for the year, arriving on payday.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = adult-life
# lesson = 005-where-money-comes-from.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): no change
1	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	7	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
7	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	pay	pay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	either	either	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc:preconj	_	_
14	wages	wage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	salary	salary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	arriving	arrive	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	acl	_	_
26	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	payday	payday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **come** | present | Most of a family's money |  |  | pay for work  wages by the hour or a salary for the year |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from pay=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **arrive** | gerund | wages by the hour or a salary for the year *not said here* |  |  | payday |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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**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): no change. **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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