--- title: Wages are usually paid by the hour or the week, so more hours means… — Where money comes from · tree and pragmatics description: Wages are usually paid by the hour or the week, so more hours means more pay; a salary is a fixed amount for the year, split into monthly payments. Who acts: more hours, salary. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (more hours, salary), 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:5 # text = Wages are usually paid by the hour or the week, so more hours means more pay; a salary is a fixed amount for the year, split into monthly payments. # 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 Wages wage NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 usually usually ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 paid pay VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 by by ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 hour hour NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 or or CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 week week NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 so so ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 13 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 14 amod _ _ 14 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 15 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 16 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 17 amod _ _ 17 pay pay NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 salary salary NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 21 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 fixed fix VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 amod _ _ 24 amount amount NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 parataxis _ _ 25 for for ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 29 split split VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 24 acl _ _ 30 into into ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 monthly monthly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 payments payment NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obl _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pay** | present · passive | | Wages | | | hour | usually *property* | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset | | 2 | **mean** | present | more hours | more pay | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pay=Topic | | 3 | **fix** | participle | | | | | | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **is a** | present | a salary | a fixed amount | | | year | | tree rules | | 5 | **split** | participle | | a fixed amount *not said here* | | | | into monthly payments *result* | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into payment=Result | 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. **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:5`. **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/). - ← previous: [Where money comes from, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/5-where-money-comes-from/3/) - next →: [Where money comes from, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/5-where-money-comes-from/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/5-where-money-comes-from/)