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title: Most family money comes from work: a salary is a fixed amount paid e… — Wages, salary and where family money comes from · tree and pragmatics
description: Most family money comes from work: a salary is a fixed amount paid every month, so if Dad earns £2,000 a month, that is 12 × £2,000 = £24,000 a year, and it pays for the home, food and everything else. Who acts: Most family money, salary, Dad, that. A sentence of the lesson «Wages, salary and where 
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# Wages, salary and where family money comes from, sentence 0

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Most family money comes from work: a salary is a fixed amount paid every month, so if Dad earns £2,000 a month, that is 12 × £2,000 = £24,000 a year, and it pays for the home, food and everything else.

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**Who acts:** Most family money, salary, Dad, that · **What happens:** come, fix, be, pay, earn · **To what, where:** work, fixed amount, 12 ×

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Wages, salary and where family money comes from» of the money 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 family money, salary, Dad, that), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:money:020-wages-salary-and-where-family-money-comes-from.lesson:0
# text = Most family money comes from work: a salary is a fixed amount paid every month, so if Dad earns £2,000 a month, that is 12 × £2,000 = £24,000 a year, and it pays for the home, food and everything else.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = money
# lesson = 020-wages-salary-and-where-family-money-comes-from.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	amod	_	_
2	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	salary	salary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	fixed	fix	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	amod	_	_
13	amount	amount	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
14	paid	pay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:acl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin
15	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	det	_	_
16	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl:unmarked	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
19	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	Dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=21:nsubj|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
21	earns	earn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
22	£	£	SYM	$	_	21	obj	_	_
23	2,000	2000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl:unmarked	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	30	nsubj	_	_
28	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
29	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
30	×	×	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
31	£	£	SYM	$	_	30	acl:relcl	_	_
32	2,000	2000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	31	nummod	_	_
33	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	34	case	_	_
34	£	£	SYM	$	_	31	conj	_	_
35	24,000	24000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	34	nummod	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=34:obl:unmarked
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
40	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
41	pays	pay	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
42	for	for	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	_
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
46	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=41:obl
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
48	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	46	conj	_	_
49	else	else	ADV	RB	_	48	advmod	_	_
50	.	.	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 | **come** | present | Most family money |  |  | work |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from work=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **fix** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **is a** | present | a salary | a fixed amount |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **pay** | participle |  | a fixed amount *not said here* |  |  | month |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **earn** | present | Dad |  |  |  | month |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent £=Theme |
| 6 | **is a** | present | that | 12 × |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **pay** | present | salary |  |  |  |  | for the home and food | 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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.

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