Jobs and what people earn, sentence 3

A law called the minimum wage sets the least a boss may pay per hour, so nobody is paid next to nothing for a full day's work.

Who acts: law, least boss, full day · What happens: call, set, pay, work · To what, where: minimum wage, nobody · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Jobs and what people earn» 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 (law, least boss, full day), 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 law	det
2	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sets	nsubj
3	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 law	acl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wage	det
5	minimum	minimum	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 wage	amod
6	wage	wage	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 called	obj
7	sets	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 least	det
9	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	11 boss	amod
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 boss	det
11	boss	boss	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 pay	nsubj
12	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 pay	aux
13	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 sets	ccomp
14	per	per	ADP	_	15 hour	case
15	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 pay	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 paid	punct
17	so	so	ADV	_	20 paid	advmod
18	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	20 paid	nsubj:pass
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 paid	aux:pass
20	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 sets	conj
21	next	next	ADV	_	20 paid	advmod
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 nothing	case
23	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	20 paid	obl
24	for	for	ADP	_	29 work	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 day	det
26	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 day	amod
27	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 work	nmod:poss
28	's	's	PART	_	27 day	case
29	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 paid	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 sets	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	call	participle	a law not said here	the minimum wage			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent wage=Recipient
2	set	present	a law				tree rules
3	pay	may	a least boss		hour		vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	pay	present · passive		nobody		to nothing; for a full day's work; next property	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Asset for work=Theme
5	work		a full day				nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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:money:029-jobs-and-what-people-earn.lesson:3.

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 ×4. 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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