Wages, salary and where family money comes from, sentence 1

Some people are paid a wage for each hour: Jack's mum earns £12.50 an hour in a café, so an 8-hour shift brings £100, and more shifts mean more money; jobs at nights or weekends often pay more per hour.

Who acts: mum, hour shift, more shifts, jobs · What happens: pay, earn, bring, mean · To what, where: people, café, more money, more

This is a sentence of the lesson «Wages, salary and where family money comes from» 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 (mum, hour shift, more shifts, jobs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

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statement

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assert

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narrator

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teacher

kept the draft

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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