---
title: Child benefit is a small regular payment from the government to fami… — Where money comes from · tree and pragmatics
description: Child benefit is a small regular payment from the government to families with children, to help with things like shoes and food. Who acts: Child benefit. 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
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/5-where-money-comes-from/12/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Adult life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/) / [Where money comes from](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/5-where-money-comes-from/) / 12

# Where money comes from, sentence 12

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Child benefit is a small regular payment from the government to families with children, to help with things like shoes and food.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Child benefit · **What happens:** be, help · **To what, where:** small regular payment, government

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (Child benefit), 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:12
# text = Child benefit is a small regular payment from the government to families with children, to help with things like shoes and food.
# 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): R5-strong ×2
1	Child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	benefit	benefit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	regular	regular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	payment	payment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	acl	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
20	like	like	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:conj
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .note -->
No stored speech act for this sentence.

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Child benefit | a small regular payment |  | the government |  | to families with children | tree rules |
| 2 | **help** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | with things like shoes and food | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with thing=Theme |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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:005-where-money-comes-from.lesson:12`.

**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/).

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Where money comes from, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/5-where-money-comes-from/11/)
- next →: [Where money comes from, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/5-where-money-comes-from/13/)
- ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/5-where-money-comes-from/)