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title: A pension is money paid to people after they retire, built up from w… — Wages, salary and where family money comes from · tree and pragmatics
description: A pension is money paid to people after they retire, built up from what they paid in while working. Who acts: pension, people. A sentence of the lesson «Wages, salary and where family money comes from» of the money course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# Wages, salary and where family money comes from, sentence 13

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A pension is money paid to people after they retire, built up from what they paid in while working.

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**Who acts:** pension, people · **What happens:** be, pay, retire, build up, pay in, work · **To what, where:** money

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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 (pension, people), 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:13
# text = A pension is money paid to people after they retire, built up from what they paid in while working.
# 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	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	pension	pension	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	paid	pay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
8	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	retire	retire	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	advcl	_	_
13	up	up	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	obl	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	paid	pay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
20	working	work	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
21	.	.	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 | **is a** | present | a pension | money |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **pay** | participle |  | money *not said here* |  |  |  | to people | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **retire** | present | people |  |  |  |  |  | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **build up** | participle | a pension *not said here* |  |  | money |  |  | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **pay in** | past | people |  |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **work** | gerund | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:money:020-wages-salary-and-where-family-money-comes-from.lesson:13`.

**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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