--- title: The minimum wage is the lowest pay per hour the law allows; raising… — Prices, money and jobs: why everything costs more · tree and pragmatics description: The minimum wage is the lowest pay per hour the law allows; raising it gives workers more but raises costs for businesses. Who acts: minimum wage, law, raising. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (minimum wage, law, raising), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:politics:018-prices-money-and-jobs-why-everything-costs-more.lesson:14 # text = The minimum wage is the lowest pay per hour the law allows; raising it gives workers more but raises costs for businesses. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = politics # lesson = 018-prices-money-and-jobs-why-everything-costs-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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 minimum minimum ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 wage wage NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 lowest low ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 7 amod _ _ 7 pay pay NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 per per ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 hour hour NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 law law NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 12 allows allow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 raising raise VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 16 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:advcl 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:nsubj 16 gives give VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 17 workers worker NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 iobj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:obl:unmarked 18 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 16 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBR:Degree=Cmp 19 but but CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 raises raise VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 21 costs cost NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 22 for for ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 businesses business NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nmod _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | the minimum wage | the lowest pay | | | hour | | tree rules | | 2 | **allow** | present | the law | the lowest pay *not said here* | | | | | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pay=Beneficiary | | 3 | **raise** | gerund | | law | | | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 4 | **give** | present | raising | more | workers | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent worker=Recipient more=Theme | | 5 | **raise** | present | raising *not said here* | costs | | | | for businesses | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cost=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:politics:018-prices-money-and-jobs-why-everything-costs-more.lesson:14`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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