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title: Before pay reaches the bank, tax and pension money is taken off: Dad… — Wages, salary and where family money comes from · tree and pragmatics
description: Before pay reaches the bank, tax and pension money is taken off: Dad's payslip says he earned £2,500 but £2,000 arrived, because £500 went on tax, which pays for schools, hospitals and roads; what is left is called take-home pay. Who acts: pay, payslip, money, tax. A sentence of the lesson «Wages, s
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# Wages, salary and where family money comes from, sentence 2

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Before pay reaches the bank, tax and pension money is taken off: Dad's payslip says he earned £2,500 but £2,000 arrived, because £500 went on tax, which pays for schools, hospitals and roads; what is left is called take-home pay.

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**Who acts:** pay, payslip, money, tax · **What happens:** reach, take off, say, earn, arrive, go · **To what, where:** bank, money, tax, home pay · **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 (pay, payslip, money, tax), 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:2
# text = Before pay reaches the bank, tax and pension money is taken off: Dad's payslip says he earned £2,500 but £2,000 arrived, because £500 went on tax, which pays for schools, hospitals and roads; what is left is called take-home pay.
# 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
1	Before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	pay	pay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	reaches	reach	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	tax	tax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
9	pension	pension	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:compound
10	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
13	off	off	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
15	Dad	Dad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	's	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	payslip	payslip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:conj
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	earned	earn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	ccomp	_	_
21	£	£	SYM	$	_	20	obj	_	_
22	2,500	2500	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
23	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	£	£	SYM	$	_	26	nsubj	_	_
25	2,000	2000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
26	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
29	£	£	SYM	$	_	31	nsubj	_	_
30	500	500	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	29	nummod	_	_
31	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:conj
32	on	on	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	tax	tax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	36	nsubj	_	_
36	pays	pay	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	acl:relcl	_	_
37	for	for	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	schools	school	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obl	_	_
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
40	hospitals	hospital	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	conj	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	roads	road	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	conj	_	_
43	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	48	punct	_	_
44	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	48	nsubj:pass	_	_
45	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	46	aux:pass	_	_
46	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	44	acl:relcl	_	_
47	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	48	aux:pass	_	_
48	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	conj	_	_
49	take	take	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	compound	_	_
50	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	49	punct	_	_
51	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	compound	_	_
52	pay	pay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	xcomp	_	_
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	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 | **reach** | present | pay | the bank |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent bank=Theme |
| 2 | **take off** | present · passive |  | money and tax and pension |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Dad's payslip |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **earn** | past | money |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent £=Theme |
| 5 | **arrive** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **go** | past |  |  |  | tax |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on tax=Location |
| 7 | **pay** | present | tax |  |  |  |  | for schools and hospitals and roads | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for school=Theme |
| 8 | **leave** | present · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V» |
| 9 | **call** | present · passive |  | home pay |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |

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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. **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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