--- title: Pocket money and earning it with chores — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Pocket money and earning it with chores», a lesson of the money course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Pocket money, also called an allowance, is a small regular amount that parents give children so they can learn to handle money thems --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/6-pocket-money-and-earning-it-with-chores/) [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/) / Pocket money and earning it with chores # Pocket money and earning it with chores Lesson 6 of the money course of Mova's primary school: 14 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/money/6-pocket-money-and-earning-it-with-chores/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/6-pocket-money-and-earning-it-with-chores/0/) — Pocket money, also called an allowance, is a small regular amount that parents give children so they can learn to handle money themselves. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/6-pocket-money-and-earning-it-with-chores/1/) — Ella gets £3 every Saturday and spends it all on six 50p bags of sweets by Sunday night, so the rest of the week she has nothing; a plan for your money is called a budget. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/6-pocket-money-and-earning-it-with-chores/3/) — Families have different amounts of money and different rules, so one friend's £10 and another's £2 are both normal, and neither child is better than the other. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/6-pocket-money-and-earning-it-with-chores/4/) — Pocket money (an allowance) is regular money parents give children to learn how to handle money. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/6-pocket-money-and-earning-it-with-chores/5/) — A budget is a plan for how you will use your money. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/6-pocket-money-and-earning-it-with-chores/6/) — Chores are jobs around the house; some families pay for extra chores and some do not. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/6-pocket-money-and-earning-it-with-chores/7/) — To negotiate is to talk until both people agree a deal, such as a price for a job. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/6-pocket-money-and-earning-it-with-chores/8/) — Families have different incomes and rules; some pocket money must cover more things, like lunch, so comparing only the number tells you little. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/6-pocket-money-and-earning-it-with-chores/9/) — Some families give pocket money only if certain jobs are done, the way grown-ups are paid only for work they do. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/6-pocket-money-and-earning-it-with-chores/10/) — Being reliable means doing a job every time you promised, even on rainy days. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/6-pocket-money-and-earning-it-with-chores/11/) — Pocket money paid into a banking app is real money, just kept as numbers instead of coins. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/6-pocket-money-and-earning-it-with-chores/13/) — Some months have 4 weeks and some have 5, so money paid weekly does not always add up to the same as money paid monthly. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/6-pocket-money-and-earning-it-with-chores/14/) — Sixpence was an old British coin; two sixpences made a shilling, and prices were much smaller then. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/6-pocket-money-and-earning-it-with-chores/15/) — A windfall is money you did not expect, like a gift from Gran. - ← previous: [Money's history: shells, coins, paper, cards, phones](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/5-money-s-history-shells-coins-paper-cards-phones/) - next →: [Wants and needs](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/7-wants-and-needs/) - ↑ back to [Money](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/)