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title: Many people are paid early in December, before Christmas, so January… — Where money comes from · tree and pragmatics
description: Many people are paid early in December, before Christmas, so January feels very long with the money already spent. Who acts: January. 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 7

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Many people are paid early in December, before Christmas, so January feels very long with the money already spent.

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**Who acts:** January · **What happens:** pay, feel, spend · **To what, where:** Many people, money

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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 (January), 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:7
# text = Many people are paid early in December, before Christmas, so January feels very long with the money already spent.
# 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, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	paid	pay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	December	December	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	before	before	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_
13	January	January	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	feels	feel	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
15	very	very	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	already	already	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	spent	spend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	19	acl	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **pay** | present · passive |  | Many people |  |  | before Christmas; december | early *property* | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset |
| 2 | **feel** | present | January |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **spend** | participle |  | the money *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1. **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.

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