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title: Grown-ups say "time is money" because many are paid by the hour: at… — Screen time, wasted time, and putting it all tog… · tree and pragmatics
description: Grown-ups say "time is money" because many are paid by the hour: at £12 an hour, 3 hours of work is £36. Who acts: Grown ups, time. A sentence of the lesson «Screen time, wasted time, and putting it all together» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Screen time, wasted time, and putting it all together, sentence 6

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Grown-ups say "time is money" because many are paid by the hour: at £12 an hour, 3 hours of work is £36.

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**Who acts:** Grown ups, time · **What happens:** say, be, pay · **To what, where:** money, many · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Screen time, wasted time, and putting it all together» of the world 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 (Grown ups, time), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:130-screen-time-and-putting-it-together.lesson:6
# text = Grown-ups say "time is money" because many are paid by the hour: at £12 an hour, 3 hours of work is £36.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 130-screen-time-and-putting-it-together.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): R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Grown	grown	ADJ	JJ	_	3	amod	_	_
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	_
3	ups	up	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
6	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:compound
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:obj
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
10	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	paid	pay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	advcl	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	£	£	SYM	$	_	29	obl	_	_
20	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
21	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod:unmarked	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
28	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
29	£	£	SYM	$	_	4	parataxis	_	_
30	36	36	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	29	nummod	_	_
31	.	.	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 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Grown ups |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | time | money |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **pay** | present · passive |  | many |  |  | hour |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset |

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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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**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:world:130-screen-time-and-putting-it-together.lesson:6`.

**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): 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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