--- title: A top footballer might earn £100,000 a week, which is 52 × £100,000… — Why some jobs pay more · tree and pragmatics description: A top footballer might earn £100,000 a week, which is 52 × £100,000 = £5,200,000 a year, because millions pay to watch and buy shirts. Who acts: top footballer, millions. 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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 (top footballer, millions), 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:8 # text = A top footballer might earn £100,000 a week, which is 52 × £100,000 = £5,200,000 a year, because millions pay to watch and buy shirts. # 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): no change 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 top top ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 footballer footballer NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 earn earn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 £ £ SYM $ _ 5 obj _ _ 7 100,000 100000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 week week NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl:unmarked _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 14 nsubj _ _ 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 13 52 52 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 14 nummod _ _ 14 × × SYM SYM Number=Sing 9 acl:relcl _ _ 15 £ £ SYM $ _ 18 compound _ _ 16 100,000 100000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 15 nummod _ _ 17 = = SYM SYM _ 18 case _ _ 18 £ £ SYM $ ExtPos=PROPN 14 appos _ _ 19 5,200,000 5,200,000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 18 flat _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl:unmarked _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 because because SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 24 millions million NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 25 pay pay VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 watch watch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 xcomp _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 buy buy VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 conj _ _ 30 shirts shirt NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obj _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **earn** | might | a top footballer | | | | week | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent £=Theme | | 2 | **pay** | present | millions | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **watch** | to-infinitive | millions *not said here* | | | | | | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **buy** | infinitive | millions *not said here* | shirts | | | | | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shirt=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:8`. **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): no change. **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, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/30-why-some-jobs-pay-more/7/) - next →: [Why some jobs pay more, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/30-why-some-jobs-pay-more/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/30-why-some-jobs-pay-more/)