Why some jobs pay more, sentence 12
Equal pay laws in many countries, including the UK, say men and women must get the same pay for the same work; sometimes it still does not happen, and people fight to fix it.
Who acts: Equal pay laws, men, it, people · What happens: include, say, get, not happen, fight, fix · To what, where: UK, same pay, Pay · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Why some jobs pay more» 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 (Equal pay laws, men, it, people), 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 | Equal | equal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 laws | amod |
| 2 | pay | pay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 laws | compound |
| 3 | laws | law | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 say | nsubj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 countries | case |
| 5 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 countries | amod |
| 6 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 laws | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 say | punct |
| 8 | including | include | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 say | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 UK | det |
| 10 | UK | UK | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 including | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 including | punct |
| 12 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 get | nsubj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 women | cc |
| 15 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 men | conj |
| 16 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 get | aux |
| 17 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 say | ccomp |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 pay | det |
| 19 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 pay | amod |
| 20 | pay | pay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 get | obj |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 work | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 work | det |
| 23 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 work | amod |
| 24 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 pay | nmod |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 happen | punct |
| 26 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 31 happen | advmod |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 happen | nsubj |
| 28 | still | still | ADV | _ | 31 happen | advmod |
| 29 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 happen | aux |
| 30 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 31 happen | advmod |
| 31 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 get | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 fight | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 fight | cc |
| 34 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 fight | nsubj |
| 35 | fight | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 happen | conj |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 fix | mark |
| 37 | fix | fix | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 fight | advcl |
| 38 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 fix | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 say | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | include | gerund | Equal pay laws in many countries not said here | the UK | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent uk=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | Equal pay laws in many countries | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | get | must | men and women | the same pay | for the same work | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent pay=Theme for work=Source | |||
| 4 | not happen | present · do-support | it | still | sometimes property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 5 | fight | present | people | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | fix | to-infinitive | people not said here | Pay | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
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:030-why-some-jobs-pay-more.lesson:12.
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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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