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title: Some families pay children for extra jobs, like washing the car, but… — Where money comes from · tree and pragmatics
description: Some families pay children for extra jobs, like washing the car, but tidying your own room is just part of living together. Who acts: families, part. 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 eve
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# Where money comes from, sentence 9

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Some families pay children for extra jobs, like washing the car, but tidying your own room is just part of living together.

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**Who acts:** families, part · **What happens:** pay, wash, tidy, be, live together · **To what, where:** children, car, own room, part

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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 (families, part), 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:9
# text = Some families pay children for extra jobs, like washing the car, but tidying your own room is just part of living together.
# 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
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	pay	pay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	extra	extra	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	jobs	job	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	washing	wash	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	tidying	tidy	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
16	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	just	just	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	ccomp	_	_
22	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
23	living	live	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	acl	_	_
24	together	together	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | some families | children |  |  |  | for extra jobs | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent child=Asset for job=Theme |
| 2 | **wash** | gerund | some families *not said here* | the car |  |  |  |  | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent car=Patient |
| 3 | **tidy** | gerund | some families *not said here* | your own room |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | present | some families *not said here* | part |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **live together** | gerund | part *not said here* |  |  |  |  | together *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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. **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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