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title: Some families give pocket money only if certain jobs are done, the w… — Pocket money and earning it with chores · tree and pragmatics
description: Some families give pocket money only if certain jobs are done, the way grown-ups are paid only for work they do. Who acts: families. A sentence of the lesson «Pocket money and earning it with chores» of the money course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# Pocket money and earning it with chores, sentence 9

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Some families give pocket money only if certain jobs are done, the way grown-ups are paid only for work they do.

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**Who acts:** families · **What happens:** give, do, pay · **To what, where:** pocket money, certain jobs, grown ups, work

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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), 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:9
# text = Some families give pocket money only if certain jobs are done, the way grown-ups are paid only for work they do.
# 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): R5-strong ×1
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	pocket	pocket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	only	only	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:advmod
7	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
8	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	jobs	job	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
15	grown	grow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	_
17	ups	up	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	paid	pay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	_
20	only	only	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **give** | present | some families | pocket money |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme |
| 2 | **do** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · passive |  | certain jobs |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 3 | **pay** | present · passive |  | grown ups |  |  |  | for work; the way *obl* | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Asset for work=Theme |
| 4 | **do** | present | Families *= family* | work *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality |

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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): R5-strong ×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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