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title: Families get money in different ways, and all of them are normal: so… — Wages, salary and where family money comes from · tree and pragmatics
description: Families get money in different ways, and all of them are normal: some people work for themselves and earn more some months than others, older people live on a pension, people between jobs can get help from the government, and a parent caring for a baby at home does real work that is just not paid. 
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# Wages, salary and where family money comes from, sentence 3

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Families get money in different ways, and all of them are normal: some people work for themselves and earn more some months than others, older people live on a pension, people between jobs can get help from the government, and a parent caring for a baby at home does real work that is just not paid.

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**Who acts:** Families, all, people, older people, parent · **What happens:** get, be, work, earn, live, care · **To what, where:** money, different ways, pension, help, government, home

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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 (Families, all, people, older 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:3
# text = Families get money in different ways, and all of them are normal: some people work for themselves and earn more some months than others, older people live on a pension, people between jobs can get help from the government, and a parent caring for a baby at home does real work that is just not paid.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	ways	way	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
9	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	nsubj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nmod	_	_
12	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	normal	normal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
15	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	det	_	_
16	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
17	work	work	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:conj
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	17	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	earn	earn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
22	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	21	advmod	_	_
23	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	24	det	_	_
24	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
25	than	than	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	29	amod	_	_
29	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj	_	_
30	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
31	on	on	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	pension	pension	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
35	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	conj	_	_
36	between	between	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	jobs	job	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nmod	_	_
38	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
39	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	acl	_	_
40	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	_
41	from	from	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=48:punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
46	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	parent	parent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	nsubj	_	_
48	caring	care	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	47	acl	_	_
49	for	for	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obl	_	_
52	at	at	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
53	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obl	_	_
54	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	conj	_	_
55	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	56	amod	_	_
56	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	obj	_	_
57	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	61	nsubj:pass	_	_
58	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	61	aux:pass	_	_
59	just	just	ADV	RB	_	61	advmod	_	_
60	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	61	advmod	_	_
61	paid	pay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	56	acl:relcl	_	_
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | present | Families | money |  | different ways |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer money=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is** | present | all |  |  |  |  | normal *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **work** | present | some people |  |  |  |  | for people | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for themselves=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **earn** | present | some people *not said here* |  |  |  | month |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **live** | present | older people |  |  | a pension |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on pension=Location |
| 6 | **get** | can | people between jobs *not said here* | help |  | the government |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent help=Theme from government=Source |
| 7 | **care** | gerund | a parent *not said here* |  |  | home |  | for a baby | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for baby=Theme |
| 8 | **do** | present | a parent | real work |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality |
| 9 | **not** **pay** | present · passive |  | real work |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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