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title: A job is work that adults do to earn money, called a salary or wages… — Forgotten lunch, lunch rubbish, a classmate with… · tree and pragmatics
description: A job is work that adults do to earn money, called a salary or wages, which pays for the home, food and bills. Who acts: job, adults, money, salary. A sentence of the lesson «Forgotten lunch, lunch rubbish, a classmate with no lunch, learning to cook, pocket money, southern seasons, jobs and salarie
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# Forgotten lunch, lunch rubbish, a classmate with no lunch, learning to cook, pocket money, southern seasons, jobs and salaries, and festivals, sentence 13

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A job is work that adults do to earn money, called a salary or wages, which pays for the home, food and bills.

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**Who acts:** job, adults, money, salary · **What happens:** be, do, earn, call, pay · **To what, where:** work, money, salary · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Forgotten lunch, lunch rubbish, a classmate with no lunch, learning to cook, pocket money, southern seasons, jobs and salaries, and festivals» 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 (job, adults, money, salary), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:330-lunch-help-cooking-allowance-southern-seasons-jobs-festivals.lesson:13
# text = A job is work that adults do to earn money, called a salary or wages, which pays for the home, food and bills.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 330-lunch-help-cooking-allowance-southern-seasons-jobs-festivals.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	job	job	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	obj	_	_
6	adults	adult	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	earn	earn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:xcomp
10	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	salary	salary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	wages	wage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	pays	pay	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	bills	bill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=24:conj
27	.	.	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 | **is a** | present | a job | work |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | present | adults | work |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality |
| 3 | **earn** | to-infinitive | adults *not said here* | money |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme |
| 4 | **call** | participle | money *not said here* | a salary or wages |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent salary=Recipient |
| 5 | **pay** | present | a salary or wages |  |  |  |  | for the home and food and bills | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for home=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): R3-conj-first ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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