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title: Welfare is government help for people who need it, such as £400 a mo… — Unemployment: when jobs are lost · tree and pragmatics
description: Welfare is government help for people who need it, such as £400 a month compared with £1,600 from a low-paid job. Who acts: Welfare, people. A sentence of the lesson «Unemployment: when jobs are lost» of the money course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# Unemployment: when jobs are lost, sentence 15

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Welfare is government help for people who need it, such as £400 a month compared with £1,600 from a low-paid job.

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**Who acts:** Welfare, people · **What happens:** be, need, compare, pay · **To what, where:** government help, Welfare, £ month

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Unemployment: when jobs are lost» 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 (Welfare, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:money:035-unemployment-when-jobs-are-lost.lesson:15
# text = Welfare is government help for people who need it, such as £400 a month compared with £1,600 from a low-paid job.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = money
# lesson = 035-unemployment-when-jobs-are-lost.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	Welfare	welfare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	16	case	_	_
12	as	as	ADP	IN	_	11	fixed	_	_
13	£	£	SYM	$	_	16	compound	_	_
14	400	400	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
17	compared	compare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	£	£	SYM	$	_	17	obl	_	_
20	1,600	1,600	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
21	from	from	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
23	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	compound	_	_
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	_
25	paid	pay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	amod	_	_
26	job	job	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Welfare | government help |  |  |  | for people | tree rules |
| 2 | **need** | present | people | Welfare |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme |
| 3 | **compare** | participle |  | a £ month *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with £=Co-Patient |
| 4 | **pay** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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.

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**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.

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