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title: Most grown-ups get their money by working: they swap their time and… — Jobs and what people earn · tree and pragmatics
description: Most grown-ups get their money by working: they swap their time and skills for pay, either by the hour or as a yearly salary. Who acts: Most grown ups, ups. A sentence of the lesson «Jobs and what people earn» of the money course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# Jobs and what people earn, sentence 0

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Most grown-ups get their money by working: they swap their time and skills for pay, either by the hour or as a yearly salary.

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**Who acts:** Most grown ups, ups · **What happens:** grow, get, work, swap · **To what, where:** money

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Jobs and what people earn» 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 (Most grown ups, ups), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:money:029-jobs-and-what-people-earn.lesson:0
# text = Most grown-ups get their money by working: they swap their time and skills for pay, either by the hour or as a yearly salary.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = money
# lesson = 029-jobs-and-what-people-earn.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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	4	amod	_	_
2	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	amod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:_
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	_
4	ups	up	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	working	work	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	advcl	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	swap	swap	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	skills	skill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	pay	pay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	either	either	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc:preconj	_	_
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
24	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
25	as	as	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	yearly	yearly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	salary	salary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **grow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **get** | present | Most grown ups | ups's money |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer money=Stimulus |
| 3 | **work** | gerund | Most grown ups *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **swap** | present | ups *= up* |  |  |  | hour; time | for pay | vn substitute-13.6.2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme for pay=Co-Theme |

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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:029-jobs-and-what-people-earn.lesson:0`.

**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 ×1, 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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