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title: Fair does not always mean the same: an older child may get more pock… — When you want what others have · tree and pragmatics
description: Fair does not always mean the same: an older child may get more pocket money for doing more jobs, and a younger one can ask for a job to earn a little more. Who acts: Fair, older child, younger one. A sentence of the lesson «When you want what others have» of the everyday course of Mova's primary sc
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# When you want what others have, sentence 19

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Fair does not always mean the same: an older child may get more pocket money for doing more jobs, and a younger one can ask for a job to earn a little more.

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**Who acts:** Fair, older child, younger one · **What happens:** not mean, get, do, ask, earn · **To what, where:** same, more pocket money, more jobs, more

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This is a sentence of the lesson «When you want what others have» 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 (Fair, older child, younger one), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:353-presents-goody-bags-certificates-and-the-newest-phone.lesson:19
# text = Fair does not always mean the same: an older child may get more pocket money for doing more jobs, and a younger one can ask for a job to earn a little more.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 353-presents-goody-bags-certificates-and-the-newest-phone.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Fair	fair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
4	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	5	advmod	_	_
5	mean	mean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	obj	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	11	amod	_	_
11	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
14	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	16	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:amod
15	pocket	pocket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
18	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
19	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	20	amod	_	_
20	jobs	job	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	younger	young	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	25	amod	_	_
25	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
26	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	job	job	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	earn	earn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:acl
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=35:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:Degree=Pos
35	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	32	obj	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **not** **mean** | present · do-support | Fair | the same |  |  |  | always *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent same=Topic |
| 2 | **get** | may | a older child | more pocket money |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer money=Stimulus |
| 3 | **do** | gerund | a older child *not said here* | more jobs |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Eventuality |
| 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | can | a younger one |  |  |  |  | for a job | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **earn** | to-infinitive | a younger one *not said here* | a more |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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