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title: When people lose their job, the government can give some money, call… — Wages, salary and where family money comes from · tree and pragmatics
description: When people lose their job, the government can give some money, called benefits, to help pay for basics; there is nothing to be ashamed of in this. Who acts: people, government, nothing. A sentence of the lesson «Wages, salary and where family money comes from» of the money course of Mova's primary 
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# Wages, salary and where family money comes from, sentence 14

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When people lose their job, the government can give some money, called benefits, to help pay for basics; there is nothing to be ashamed of in this.

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**Who acts:** people, government, nothing · **What happens:** lose, give, call, help, pay, be · **To what, where:** job, money · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (people, government, nothing), 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:14
# text = When people lose their job, the government can give some money, called benefits, to help pay for basics; there is nothing to be ashamed of in this.
# 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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	lose	lose	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
4	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	job	job	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	det	_	_
12	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	amod	_	_
15	benefits	benefit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:acl:relcl
19	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	basics	basic	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	24	expl	_	_
24	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:advcl
25	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	24	nsubj	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
27	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	aux:pass	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:cop
28	ashamed	asham	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	acl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=25:acl|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	fixed	_	_
31	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	28	obl	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **lose** | present | people | people's job |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Eventuality |
| 2 | **give** | can | the government | some money and called benefits |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme |
| 3 | **call** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **help** | to-infinitive | the government *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 5 | **pay** | infinitive | the government *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for basics | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for basic=Theme |
| 6 | **be** | present | nothing |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **asham** | to-infinitive · passive | nothing *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of this | tree rules |
| 8 | **job** |  | people |  |  |  |  |  | nom job «act intransitive»: poss=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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**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 ×2, 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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