--- title: A nurse earning about £35,000 a year needs about 3 years to earn £10… — Why some jobs pay more · tree and pragmatics description: A nurse earning about £35,000 a year needs about 3 years to earn £100,000, which that footballer earns in a single week. Who acts: nurse, footballer. A sentence of the lesson «Why some jobs pay more» of the money course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/30-why-some-jobs-pay-more/9/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Money](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/) / [Why some jobs pay more](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/30-why-some-jobs-pay-more/) / 9 # Why some jobs pay more, sentence 9 A nurse earning about £35,000 a year needs about 3 years to earn £100,000, which that footballer earns in a single week. **Who acts:** nurse, footballer · **What happens:** earn, need 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 (nurse, footballer), 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:9 # text = A nurse earning about £35,000 a year needs about 3 years to earn £100,000, which that footballer earns in a single week. # 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 ×3 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 nurse nurse NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 3 earning earn VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 acl _ _ 4 about about ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 5 £ £ SYM $ _ 3 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:obl 6 35,000 35000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl:unmarked _ _ 9 needs need VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 about about ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 3 3 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 12 nummod _ _ 12 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 earn earn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:xcomp 15 £ £ SYM $ _ 14 obj _ _ 16 100,000 100000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 15 nummod _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 21 obj _ _ 19 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 20 det _ _ 20 footballer footballer NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 earns earn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 acl:relcl _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 single single ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 week week NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 9 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** | gerund | a nurse *not said here* | | | | year | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent £=Theme | | 2 | **need** | present | a nurse | | | | year | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 3 | **earn** | to-infinitive | a nurse *not said here* | | | | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent £=Theme | | 4 | **earn** | present | that footballer | | | | week | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=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:9`. **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 ×3. **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, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/30-why-some-jobs-pay-more/8/) - next →: [Why some jobs pay more, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/30-why-some-jobs-pay-more/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/30-why-some-jobs-pay-more/)