--- title: A CEO is the top boss of a company; a CEO on £2,000,000 a year earns… — Why some jobs pay more · tree and pragmatics description: A CEO is the top boss of a company; a CEO on £2,000,000 a year earns 100 times as much as a worker on £20,000; some say bosses earn it, others say it is unfair. Who acts: CEO, some, bosses, others. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (CEO, some, bosses, 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:13 # text = A CEO is the top boss of a company; a CEO on £2,000,000 a year earns 100 times as much as a worker on £20,000; some say bosses earn it, others say it is unfair. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 CEO ceo NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 top top ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 boss boss NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 company company NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 CEO ceo NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 13 on on ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 £ £ SYM $ _ 12 nmod _ _ 15 2,000,000 2,000,000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 14 nummod _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl:unmarked _ _ 18 earns earn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 19 100 100 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 20 nummod _ _ 20 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl:unmarked _ _ 21 as as ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 obj _ _ 23 as as ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 worker worker NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 26 on on ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 £ £ SYM $ _ 25 nmod _ _ 28 20,000 20000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 27 nummod _ _ 29 ; ; PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 31 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=31:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Ind 31 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 32 bosses boss NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nsubj _ _ 33 earn earn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 ccomp _ _ 34 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 obj _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 36 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 nsubj _ _ 37 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=31:conj 38 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 39 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 cop _ _ 40 unfair unfair ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 ccomp _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a CEO | the top boss | | | | of a company | tree rules | | 2 | **earn** | present | a CEO | much | | | time; year | as a worker | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Theme | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | some | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **earn** | present | bosses | CEO | | | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | others | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is** | present | boss | | | | | unfair *property* | tree rules | 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. **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:030-why-some-jobs-pay-more.lesson:13`. **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): 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/). - ← previous: [Why some jobs pay more, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/30-why-some-jobs-pay-more/12/) - next →: [Why some jobs pay more, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/30-why-some-jobs-pay-more/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/30-why-some-jobs-pay-more/)