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title: Families have different incomes and rules; some pocket money must co… — Pocket money and earning it with chores · tree and pragmatics
description: Families have different incomes and rules; some pocket money must cover more things, like lunch, so comparing only the number tells you little. Who acts: Families, pocket money, comparing. A sentence of the lesson «Pocket money and earning it with chores» of the money course of Mova's primary school
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# Pocket money and earning it with chores, sentence 8

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Families have different incomes and rules; some pocket money must cover more things, like lunch, so comparing only the number tells you little.

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**Who acts:** Families, pocket money, comparing · **What happens:** have, cover, compare, tell · **To what, where:** different incomes, more things, number, little, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Pocket money and earning it with chores» 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 (Families, pocket money, comparing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:money:006-pocket-money-and-earning-it-with-chores.lesson:8
# text = Families have different incomes and rules; some pocket money must cover more things, like lunch, so comparing only the number tells you little.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = money
# lesson = 006-pocket-money-and-earning-it-with-chores.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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	incomes	income	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	rules	rule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	det	_	_
9	pocket	pocket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	cover	cover	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
13	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	14	amod	_	_
14	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	like	like	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	lunch	lunch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct
19	so	so	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
20	comparing	compare	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	csubj	_	_
21	only	only	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
24	tells	tell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
25	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	iobj	_	_
26	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	obj	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Families | different incomes and rules |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent income=Patient |
| 2 | **cover** | must | some pocket money | more things |  |  |  | like lunch | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme thing=Destination |
| 3 | **compare** | gerund |  | the number |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Patient |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | comparing | little | you |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient little=Topic |

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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): R6-punct-agree ×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.

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