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title: Picture Ella's dad, a bus driver on about £15 an hour: a full week o… — Jobs and what people earn · tree and pragmatics
description: Picture Ella's dad, a bus driver on about £15 an hour: a full week of 40 hours earns 40 × £15 = £600 before tax, and that pays for the family's rent, food and bills. Who acts: you, full week, that, family. A sentence of the lesson «Jobs and what people earn» of the money course of Mova's primary sch
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# Jobs and what people earn, sentence 1

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Picture Ella's dad, a bus driver on about £15 an hour: a full week of 40 hours earns 40 × £15 = £600 before tax, and that pays for the family's rent, food and bills.

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**Who acts:** you, full week, that, family · **What happens:** picture, earn, pay, rent · **To what, where:** dad

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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 (you, full week, that, family), 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:1
# text = Picture Ella's dad, a bus driver on about £15 an hour: a full week of 40 hours earns 40 × £15 = £600 before tax, and that pays for the family's rent, food and bills.
# 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): no change
1	Picture	picture	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	Ella	Ella	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	bus	bus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	driver	driver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	about	about	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	£	£	SYM	$	_	8	nmod	_	_
12	15	15	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod:unmarked	_	_
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	40	40	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
22	earns	earn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
23	40	40	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	×	×	SYM	SYM	_	22	obj	_	_
25	£	£	SYM	$	_	24	flat	_	_
26	15	15	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
27	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	28	punct	_	_
28	£	£	SYM	$	_	22	obj	_	_
29	600	600	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	28	nummod	_	_
30	before	before	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	tax	tax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
34	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	35	nsubj	_	_
35	pays	pay	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
36	for	for	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod:poss	_	_
39	's	's	PART	POS	_	38	case	_	_
40	rent	rent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
42	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	conj	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
44	bills	bill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	conj	_	_
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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 | **picture** | imperative | you *not said here* | Ella's dad |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent dad=Theme |
| 2 | **earn** | present | a full week of 40 hours |  |  |  | before tax |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent ×=Beneficiary £=Theme |
| 3 | **pay** | present | that |  |  |  |  | for the family's rent and food and bills | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for rent=Theme |
| 4 | **rent** |  | the family |  |  |  |  |  | nom rent «possession transitive»: poss=agent |

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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): 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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