---
title: Picture a terraced house in Manchester on the last Friday of the mon… — Where money comes from · tree and pragmatics
description: Picture a terraced house in Manchester on the last Friday of the month: Mum checks her phone, smiles "It's payday, let's get a takeaway", and the kids cheer, because all week the answer to treats was "wait till payday". Who acts: you, Mum, phone, 's. A sentence of the lesson «Where money comes from»
---

<!-- 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/3/)

<!-- 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/) / 3

# Where money comes from, sentence 3

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Picture a terraced house in Manchester on the last Friday of the month: Mum checks her phone, smiles "It's payday, let's get a takeaway", and the kids cheer, because all week the answer to treats was "wait till payday".

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** you, Mum, phone, 's, kids, answer · **What happens:** picture, terrace, check, smile, be, let · **To what, where:** terraced house, Manchester, phone, payday, 's, takeaway · **Speech:** someone speaks here

<!-- .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 (you, Mum, phone, 's), 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:3
# text = Picture a terraced house in Manchester on the last Friday of the month: Mum checks her phone, smiles "It's payday, let's get a takeaway", and the kids cheer, because all week the answer to treats was "wait till 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Picture	picture	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	terraced	terrace	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	amod	_	_
4	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Manchester	Manchester	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:obl
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	Friday	Friday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
15	Mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:amod
16	checks	check	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
17	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	smiles	smile	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
21	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	_
22	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
24	payday	payday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
26	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
27	's	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	takeaway	takeaway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	28	punct	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=47:punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	kids	kid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nsubj	_	_
36	cheer	cheer	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
38	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	47	mark	_	_
39	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	40	det	_	_
40	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl:unmarked	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nsubj	_	_
43	to	to	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	treats	treat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	nmod	_	_
45	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	47	cop	_	_
46	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	47	punct	_	_
47	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	parataxis	_	_
48	till	till	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	payday	payday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	_
50	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	47	punct	_	_
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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 | **picture** | imperative | you *not said here* | a terraced house |  | Manchester | friday |  | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent house=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **terrace** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **check** | present | Mum | Mum's phone |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent phone=Theme |
| 4 | **smile** | present | Mum *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | phone | payday |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | 's |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **get** *in a quote* | infinitive | 's *not said here* | a takeaway |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer takeaway=Stimulus |
| 8 | **cheer** | present | the kids |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 9 | **is** *in a quote* | past | the answer to treats |  |  |  | till payday; week | wait *property* | tree rules |

<!-- .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:3`.

**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 ×1, 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/).

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Where money comes from, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/5-where-money-comes-from/2/)
- next →: [Where money comes from, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/5-where-money-comes-from/5/)
- ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/5-where-money-comes-from/)

