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title: A salary is yearly pay; an hourly rate is pay for each hour worked;… — Jobs and what people earn · tree and pragmatics
description: A salary is yearly pay; an hourly rate is pay for each hour worked; a career is the work someone does over their life. Who acts: salary, hourly rate, career, someone. 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 pr
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# Jobs and what people earn, sentence 5

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A salary is yearly pay; an hourly rate is pay for each hour worked; a career is the work someone does over their life.

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**Who acts:** salary, hourly rate, career, someone · **What happens:** be, work, do · **To what, where:** yearly pay, pay, hour, work, life

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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 (salary, hourly rate, career, someone), 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:5
# text = A salary is yearly pay; an hourly rate is pay for each hour worked; a career is the work someone does over their life.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	salary	salary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	yearly	yearly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	pay	pay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	hourly	hourly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	rate	rate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	pay	pay	NOUN	NN	_	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	det	_	_
14	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	worked	work	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=5:punct
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	career	career	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
22	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	23	nsubj	_	_
23	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
24	over	over	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	.	.	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 | **is a** | present | a salary | yearly pay |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | a hourly rate | pay |  |  | hour |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **work** | participle |  | each hour *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | present | a career | the work |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **do** | present | someone | the work *not said here* |  | jobs's life |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality |

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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: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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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