--- title: Most people think jobs take less time than they really do; timing a… — Coins, pocket money, saving, spending wisely and… · tree and pragmatics description: Most people think jobs take less time than they really do; timing a job once shows how long it takes. Who acts: Most people, jobs, job, it. A sentence of the lesson «Coins, pocket money, saving, spending wisely and planning time» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tr --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/308-coins-pocket-money-saving-and-planning-time/16/) [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/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Coins, pocket money, saving, spending…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/308-coins-pocket-money-saving-and-planning-time/) / 16 # Coins, pocket money, saving, spending wisely and planning time, sentence 16 Most people think jobs take less time than they really do; timing a job once shows how long it takes. **Who acts:** Most people, jobs, job, it · **What happens:** think, take, time, show · **To what, where:** job · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Coins, pocket money, saving, spending wisely and planning time» of the everyday 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 (Most people, jobs, job, it), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:308-coins-pocket-money-saving-and-planning-time.lesson:16 # text = Most people think jobs take less time than they really do; timing a job once shows how long it takes. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 308-coins-pocket-money-saving-and-planning-time.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 Most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 2 amod _ _ 2 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 think think VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 jobs job NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 take take VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ _ 6 less less ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 7 amod _ _ 7 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 than than SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 9 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 10 really really ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 13 timing time VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 job job NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 17 advmod _ _ 17 shows show VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 acl:relcl _ _ 18 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 19 advmod _ _ 19 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 21 advmod _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 takes take VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 ccomp _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **think** *speech: other* | present | Most people | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 2 | **take** | present | jobs | | | | time | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **time** | gerund | Most people *not said here* | a job | | | | | vn register-54.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Theme | | 4 | **show** | present | a job *not said here* | | | | | once *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **take** | present | it | | | | | long *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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:everyday:308-coins-pocket-money-saving-and-planning-time.lesson:16`. **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. 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