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title: A payslip is a paper or screen showing what you earned and what was… — Wages, salary and where family money comes from · tree and pragmatics
description: A payslip is a paper or screen showing what you earned and what was taken off. Who acts: payslip, paper screen, you. 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 9

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A payslip is a paper or screen showing what you earned and what was taken off.

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**Who acts:** payslip, paper screen, you · **What happens:** be, show, earn, take off · **To what, where:** paper screen

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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 (payslip, paper screen, you), 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:9
# text = A payslip is a paper or screen showing what you earned and what was taken off.
# 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
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	payslip	payslip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:det
5	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	screen	screen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	showing	show	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
9	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	obj	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	earned	earn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	9	conj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl:relcl	_	_
16	off	off	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 payslip | paper screen |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **show** | gerund | paper screen *not said here* | paper screen |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient |
| 3 | **earn** | past | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **take off** | past · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP» |

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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:9`.

**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. **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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