--- title: Supply and demand means how many people can do a job compared with h… — Why some jobs pay more · tree and pragmatics description: Supply and demand means how many people can do a job compared with how much people want it done; when lots of people can do a job, pay tends to be lower. Who acts: Supply, many people, much people, job. 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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 (Supply, many people, much people, job), 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:6 # text = Supply and demand means how many people can do a job compared with how much people want it done; when lots of people can do a job, pay tends to be lower. # 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 1 Supply supply NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 demand demand NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ 4 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 6 advmod _ _ 6 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 8 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 ccomp _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 job job NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 compared compare VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 acl _ _ 13 with with SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 14 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 15 advmod _ _ 15 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 17 want want VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 advcl _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 xcomp _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 21 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 26 advmod _ _ 22 lots lot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nmod _ _ 25 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 job job NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 30 pay pay NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 31 tends tend VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 32 to to PART TO _ 34 mark _ _ 33 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 34 cop _ _ 34 lower low ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 31 xcomp _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | Supply and demand | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **do** | can | many people | a job | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Eventuality | | 3 | **compare** | participle | | a job *not said here* | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **want** | present | much people | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 5 | **do** *not said to happen* | participle | job | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **do** | can | lots of people | a job | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Eventuality | | 7 | **tend** | present | pay | | | | | | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **is** | to-infinitive | pay *not said here* | | | | | low *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:6`. **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. **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, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/30-why-some-jobs-pay-more/5/) - next →: [Why some jobs pay more, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/30-why-some-jobs-pay-more/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/30-why-some-jobs-pay-more/)