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title: Some jobs, like fishing, pay a lot one month and little the next, so… — Money is tight: free school meals and second-han… · tree and pragmatics
description: Some jobs, like fishing, pay a lot one month and little the next, so families save in good months for bad ones. Who acts: jobs, families. A sentence of the lesson «Money is tight: free school meals and second-hand uniform» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and 
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# Money is tight: free school meals and second-hand uniform, sentence 30

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Some jobs, like fishing, pay a lot one month and little the next, so families save in good months for bad ones.

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**Who acts:** jobs, families · **What happens:** pay, save · **To what, where:** lot

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Money is tight: free school meals and second-hand uniform» 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 (jobs, families), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:487-money-is-tight-free-meals-and-second-hand-uniform.lesson:30
# text = Some jobs, like fishing, pay a lot one month and little the next, so families save in good months for bad ones.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 487-money-is-tight-free-meals-and-second-hand-uniform.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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	jobs	job	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	like	like	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	fishing	fishing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	pay	pay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:parataxis
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	lot	lot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	obj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
18	families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
19	save	save	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19: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 jobs like fishing | a lot |  |  | month |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Asset |
| 2 | **save** | present | families |  |  |  | month | for bad ones | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent for one=Source |

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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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**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:487-money-is-tight-free-meals-and-second-hand-uniform.lesson:30`.

**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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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