--- title: Many people feel it is unfair that a nurse who saves lives earns far… — Why some jobs pay more · tree and pragmatics description: Many people feel it is unfair that a nurse who saves lives earns far less than a footballer; others say pay follows what people choose to spend on; both sides have reasons, and the argument goes on. Who acts: Many people, nurse, others, pay. 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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 (Many people, nurse, others, pay), 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:4 # text = Many people feel it is unfair that a nurse who saves lives earns far less than a footballer; others say pay follows what people choose to spend on; both sides have reasons, and the argument goes on. # 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 1 Many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 feel feel VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 expl _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 6 unfair unfair ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 ccomp _ _ 7 that that SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 nurse nurse NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 10 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 11 nsubj _ _ 11 saves save VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 acl:relcl _ _ 12 lives life NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 13 earns earn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 csubj _ _ 14 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 15 advmod _ _ 15 less less ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 13 obj _ _ 16 than than ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 footballer footballer NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 21 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 22 pay pay NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 follows follow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 ccomp _ _ 24 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 23 obj _ _ 25 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 26 choose choose VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 acl:relcl _ _ 27 to to PART TO _ 28 mark _ _ 28 spend spend VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 xcomp _ _ 29 on on ADP IN _ 28 obl _ _ 30 ; ; PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 32 det _ _ 32 sides side NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nsubj _ _ 33 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 34 reasons reason NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obj _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 argument argument NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nsubj _ _ 39 goes go VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 conj _ _ 40 on on ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=39:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **feel** | present | Many people | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **is** | present | Many people *not said here* | | | | | unfair *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **save** | present | a nurse | lives | | | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme | | 4 | **earn** | present | a nurse | less | | | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent less=Theme | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | others | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **follow** | present | pay | | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme | | 7 | **choose** | present | people | | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **spend** | to-infinitive | people *not said here* | | | | | | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **have** | present | both sides | reasons | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Patient | | 10 | **go on** | present | the argument | | | | | | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:4`. **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. **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, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/30-why-some-jobs-pay-more/3/) - next →: [Why some jobs pay more, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/30-why-some-jobs-pay-more/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/30-why-some-jobs-pay-more/)