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title: Benefits are money the government pays to people who need help, such… — Where money comes from · tree and pragmatics
description: Benefits are money the government pays to people who need help, such as those out of work, ill, caring for someone or on low pay; Universal Credit is the main one in the UK. Who acts: Benefits, government, people, Universal Credit. A sentence of the lesson «Where money comes from» of the adult life 
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# Where money comes from, sentence 10

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Benefits are money the government pays to people who need help, such as those out of work, ill, caring for someone or on low pay; Universal Credit is the main one in the UK.

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**Who acts:** Benefits, government, people, Universal Credit · **What happens:** be, pay, need, care · **To what, where:** money, help, main one, UK

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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 (Benefits, government, people, Universal Credit), 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:10
# text = Benefits are money the government pays to people who need help, such as those out of work, ill, caring for someone or on low pay; Universal Credit is the main one in the UK.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Benefits	benefit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	pays	pay	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	15	case	_	_
14	as	as	ADP	IN	_	13	fixed	_	_
15	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	8	appos	_	_
16	out	out	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct
20	ill	ill	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	caring	care	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	acl	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	22	obl	_	_
25	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	on	on	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
27	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	pay	pay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
29	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
30	Universal	universal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	Credit	credit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
32	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	main	main	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	UK	UK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 a** | present | Benefits | money |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **pay** | present | the government | money *not said here* |  |  |  | to people | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Asset |
| 3 | **need** | present | people | help |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot help=Theme |
| 4 | **care** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | for someone | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for someone=Theme |
| 5 | **is a** | present | Universal Credit | the main one |  | the UK |  |  | tree rules |

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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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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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