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title: Some people are paid a wage for each hour: Jack's mum earns £12.50 a… — Wages, salary and where family money comes from · tree and pragmatics
description: Some people are paid a wage for each hour: Jack's mum earns £12.50 an hour in a café, so an 8-hour shift brings £100, and more shifts mean more money; jobs at nights or weekends often pay more per hour. Who acts: mum, hour shift, more shifts, jobs. A sentence of the lesson «Wages, salary and where f
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# Wages, salary and where family money comes from, sentence 1

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Some people are paid a wage for each hour: Jack's mum earns £12.50 an hour in a café, so an 8-hour shift brings £100, and more shifts mean more money; jobs at nights or weekends often pay more per hour.

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**Who acts:** mum, hour shift, more shifts, jobs · **What happens:** pay, earn, bring, mean · **To what, where:** people, café, more money, more

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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 (mum, hour shift, more shifts, jobs), 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:1
# text = Some people are paid a wage for each hour: Jack's mum earns £12.50 an hour in a café, so an 8-hour shift brings £100, and more shifts mean more money; jobs at nights or weekends often pay more per hour.
# 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): no change
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	paid	pay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	wage	wage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
9	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
11	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	earns	earn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
15	£	£	SYM	$	_	14	obj	_	_
16	12.50	12.50	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
17	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl:unmarked	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	café	café	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
23	so	so	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
24	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
25	8	8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	_
27	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	shift	shift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
29	brings	bring	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
30	£	£	SYM	$	_	29	obj	_	_
31	100	100	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
34	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	35	amod	_	_
35	shifts	shift	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nsubj	_	_
36	mean	mean	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	parataxis	_	_
37	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	38	amod	_	_
38	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
39	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
40	jobs	job	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	nsubj	_	_
41	at	at	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	nights	night	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	nmod	_	_
43	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
44	weekends	weekend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	conj	_	_
45	often	often	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	_
46	pay	pay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	conj	_	_
47	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	46	obj	_	_
48	per	per	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	_
50	.	.	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 | **pay** | present · passive |  | some people |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Recipient wage=Asset |
| 2 | **earn** | present | Jack's mum |  |  | a café | hour |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent £=Theme |
| 3 | **bring** | present | a hour shift |  |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent £=Theme |
| 4 | **mean** | present | more shifts | more money |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Topic |
| 5 | **pay** | present | jobs at nights or weekends | more |  |  | hour | often *property* | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Asset |

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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): no change. **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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