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title: Before pay reaches the bank, some is taken off as tax for the govern… — Where money comes from · tree and pragmatics
description: Before pay reaches the bank, some is taken off as tax for the government, and some is put away into a pension for old age. Who acts: pay. 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 clause.
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# Where money comes from, sentence 2

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Before pay reaches the bank, some is taken off as tax for the government, and some is put away into a pension for old age.

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**Who acts:** pay · **What happens:** reach, take off, put away · **To what, where:** bank, some, pension

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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 (pay), 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:2
# text = Before pay reaches the bank, some is taken off as tax for the government, and some is put away into a pension for old age.
# 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	Before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	pay	pay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	reaches	reach	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
7	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	off	off	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	as	as	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	tax	tax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
21	away	away	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	into	into	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	pension	pension	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:obl
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **reach** | present | pay | the bank |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent bank=Theme |
| 2 | **take off** | present · passive |  | some |  |  |  | as tax for the government | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **put away** | present · passive |  | some |  | a pension for old age |  | away *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal |

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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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**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:2`.

**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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