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title: A wage is pay for each hour or each week worked; fewer hours means l… — Wages, salary and where family money comes from · tree and pragmatics
description: A wage is pay for each hour or each week worked; fewer hours means less money. Who acts: wage, fewer hours. 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 clause.
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# Wages, salary and where family money comes from, sentence 5

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A wage is pay for each hour or each week worked; fewer hours means less money.

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**Who acts:** wage, fewer hours · **What happens:** be, work, mean · **To what, where:** week, less 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 (wage, fewer hours), 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:5
# text = A wage is pay for each hour or each week worked; fewer hours means less money.
# 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	wage	wage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
7	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:unmarked	_	_
11	worked	work	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	acl	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	fewer	few	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	14	amod	_	_
14	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
16	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	17	amod	_	_
17	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **is** | present | a wage |  |  |  | hour | pay *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **work** | participle |  | each week *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **mean** | present | fewer hours | less money |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Topic |

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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:5`.

**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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