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title: Pay is not a score for how good or important a person is; it mostly… — Why some jobs pay more · tree and pragmatics
description: Pay is not a score for how good or important a person is; it mostly depends on how many people can do a job and how much others want that job done. Who acts: Pay, it, many people, others. A sentence of the lesson «Why some jobs pay more» of the money course of Mova's primary school with its dependen
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# Why some jobs pay more, sentence 0

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Pay is not a score for how good or important a person is; it mostly depends on how many people can do a job and how much others want that job done.

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**Who acts:** Pay, it, many people, others, job · **What happens:** not be, be, depend, do, want · **To what, where:** score, job

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Why some jobs pay more» 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 (Pay, it, many people, others), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:money:030-why-some-jobs-pay-more.lesson:0
# text = Pay is not a score for how good or important a person is; it mostly depends on how many people can do a job and how much others want that job done.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = money
# lesson = 030-why-some-jobs-pay-more.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 ×2
1	Pay	pay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	score	score	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
8	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	nmod	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	important	important	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	mostly	mostly	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	depends	depend	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
18	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
19	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	20	advmod	_	_
20	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
22	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:obl
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	job	job	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
27	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	28	advmod	_	_
28	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:amod
29	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj	_	_
30	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
31	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	32	det	_	_
32	job	job	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	xcomp	_	_
34	.	.	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 | **not** **is a** | present | Pay | a score |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **depend** | present | it |  |  |  |  | mostly *property* | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **do** | can | many people | a job |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Eventuality |
| 6 | **want** | present | others | that job |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **do** *not said to happen* | participle | that job *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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): R5-strong ×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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