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title: Equal pay laws in many countries, including the UK, say men and wome… — Why some jobs pay more · tree and pragmatics
description: Equal pay laws in many countries, including the UK, say men and women must get the same pay for the same work; sometimes it still does not happen, and people fight to fix it. Who acts: Equal pay laws, men, it, people. A sentence of the lesson «Why some jobs pay more» of the money course of Mova's pr
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# Why some jobs pay more, sentence 12

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Equal pay laws in many countries, including the UK, say men and women must get the same pay for the same work; sometimes it still does not happen, and people fight to fix it.

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**Who acts:** Equal pay laws, men, it, people · **What happens:** include, say, get, not happen, fight, fix · **To what, where:** UK, same pay, Pay · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Equal pay laws, men, it, people), 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:12
# text = Equal pay laws in many countries, including the UK, say men and women must get the same pay for the same work; sometimes it still does not happen, and people fight to fix it.
# 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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Equal	equal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	pay	pay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	laws	law	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	including	include	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	UK	UK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
12	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
16	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	ccomp	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	pay	pay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
25	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
26	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	31	advmod	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
28	still	still	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
29	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
30	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	31	advmod	_	_
31	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
34	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nsubj	_	_
35	fight	fight	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:conj
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
37	fix	fix	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=35:xcomp
38	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	obj	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17: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 | **include** | gerund | Equal pay laws in many countries *not said here* | the UK |  |  |  |  | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent uk=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Equal pay laws in many countries |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **get** | must | men and women | the same pay |  |  |  | for the same work | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent pay=Theme for work=Source |
| 4 | **not** **happen** | present · do-support | it |  |  |  | still | sometimes *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **fight** | present | people |  |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **fix** | to-infinitive | people *not said here* | Pay |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient |

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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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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.

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