Why some jobs pay more, sentence 13
A CEO is the top boss of a company; a CEO on £2,000,000 a year earns 100 times as much as a worker on £20,000; some say bosses earn it, others say it is unfair.
Who acts: CEO, some, bosses, others, boss · What happens: be, earn, say · To what, where: top boss, much, CEO · 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 (CEO, some, bosses, others), 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 CEO | det |
| 2 | CEO | ceo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 boss | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 boss | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 boss | det |
| 5 | top | top | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 boss | amod |
| 6 | boss | boss | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 company | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 company | det |
| 9 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 boss | nmod |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 CEO | punct |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 CEO | det |
| 12 | CEO | ceo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 earns | nsubj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 £ | case |
| 14 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 12 CEO | nmod |
| 15 | 2,000,000 | 2,000,000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 £ | nummod |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 year | det |
| 17 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 earns | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | earns | earn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 boss | parataxis |
| 19 | 100 | 100 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 20 times | nummod |
| 20 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 earns | obl:unmarked |
| 21 | as | as | ADV | _ | 22 much | advmod |
| 22 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 earns | obj |
| 23 | as | as | ADP | _ | 25 worker | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 worker | det |
| 25 | worker | worker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 much | nmod |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 £ | case |
| 27 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 25 worker | nmod |
| 28 | 20,000 | 20000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 27 £ | nummod |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 say | punct |
| 30 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 31 say | nsubj |
| 31 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 boss | parataxis |
| 32 | bosses | boss | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 earn | nsubj |
| 33 | earn | earn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 say | ccomp |
| 34 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 earn | obj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 say | punct |
| 36 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 say | nsubj |
| 37 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 say | parataxis |
| 38 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 unfair | nsubj |
| 39 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 unfair | cop |
| 40 | unfair | unfair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 say | ccomp |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 boss | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a CEO | the top boss | of a company | tree rules | |||
| 2 | earn | present | a CEO | much | time; year | as a worker | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Theme | ||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present | some | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | earn | present | bosses | CEO | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | present | others | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | is | present | boss | unfair property | tree rules |
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:13.
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 ×1, R8-pos-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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