Where money comes from, sentence 17
A pension is money saved during working life, often with the employer adding some, to live on after retiring; the state also pays a pension to most older people.
Who acts: money, state · What happens: be, save, work, add, live, retire · To what, where: money, life, some, pension
This is a sentence of the lesson «Where money comes from» of the adult life 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 (money, state), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 pension | det |
| 2 | pension | pension | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 money | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 money | cop |
| 4 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | saved | save | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 money | acl |
| 6 | during | during | ADP | _ | 7 working | mark |
| 7 | working | work | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 saved | advcl |
| 8 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saved | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 employer | punct |
| 10 | often | often | ADV | _ | 13 employer | advmod |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 employer | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 employer | det |
| 13 | employer | employer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 life | conj |
| 14 | adding | add | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 working | advcl |
| 15 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 adding | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 live | punct |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 live | mark |
| 18 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 adding | xcomp |
| 19 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 21 retiring | mark |
| 20 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 21 retiring | mark |
| 21 | retiring | retire | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 live | advcl |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 pays | punct |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 state | det |
| 24 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 pays | nsubj |
| 25 | also | also | ADV | _ | 26 pays | advmod |
| 26 | pays | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 retiring | parataxis |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 pension | det |
| 28 | pension | pension | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 pays | obj |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 people | case |
| 30 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 32 people | amod |
| 31 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 32 people | amod |
| 32 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 pays | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 money | punct |
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 · passive | money | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | save | participle | money not said here | life and the employer | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | work | gerund | money not said here | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | add speech: assert | gerund | money not said here | some | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | live | to-infinitive | money not said here | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | retire | gerund | money not said here | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | pay | present | the state | a pension | to most older people | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pension=Asset |
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, 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:adult-life:005-where-money-comes-from.lesson:17.
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 ×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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