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title: Some rich families have parents who work very long hours; money can… — Rich families: the big house, the nanny and neve… · tree and pragmatics
description: Some rich families have parents who work very long hours; money can pay for help but not for time together. Who acts: rich families, parents, money. A sentence of the lesson «Rich families: the big house, the nanny and never seeing Dad» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its depend
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# Rich families: the big house, the nanny and never seeing Dad, sentence 29

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Some rich families have parents who work very long hours; money can pay for help but not for time together.

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**Who acts:** rich families, parents, money · **What happens:** have, work, pay · **To what, where:** parents

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Rich families: the big house, the nanny and never seeing Dad» 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 (rich families, parents, money), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:491-rich-families-the-big-house-the-nanny-and-never-seeing-dad.lesson:29
# text = Some rich families have parents who work very long hours; money can pay for help but not for time together.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 491-rich-families-the-big-house-the-nanny-and-never-seeing-dad.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
2	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	work	work	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	very	very	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
12	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=16:cc
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
21	together	together	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:advmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | some rich families | parents |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent parent=Patient |
| 2 | **work** | present | parents |  |  |  | hour |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **pay** | can | money |  |  |  |  | for help but time | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for help=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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**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:491-rich-families-the-big-house-the-nanny-and-never-seeing-dad.lesson:29`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×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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