Why some jobs pay more, sentence 14
Dangerous jobs often pay more to get people to do them, like £60,000 on an oil rig instead of £35,000 on land; this is sometimes called danger money.
Who acts: Dangerous jobs, people · What happens: pay, get, do, call · To what, where: more, people, this · 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 (Dangerous jobs, 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 | Dangerous | dangerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 jobs | amod |
| 2 | jobs | job | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 pay | nsubj |
| 3 | often | often | ADV | _ | 4 pay | advmod |
| 4 | pay | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 pay | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 get | mark |
| 7 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 pay | advcl |
| 8 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 get | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 do | mark |
| 10 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 get | xcomp |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 do | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 £ | punct |
| 13 | like | like | ADP | _ | 14 £ | case |
| 14 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 4 pay | obl |
| 15 | 60,000 | 60000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 £ | nummod |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 rig | case |
| 17 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 rig | det |
| 18 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 rig | compound |
| 19 | rig | rig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 £ | nmod |
| 20 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 22 £ | case |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 instead | fixed |
| 22 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 14 £ | nmod |
| 23 | 35,000 | 35000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 22 £ | nummod |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 land | case |
| 25 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 £ | nmod |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 called | punct |
| 27 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 30 called | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 called | aux:pass |
| 29 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 30 called | advmod |
| 30 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 pay | parataxis |
| 31 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 money | compound |
| 32 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 called | xcomp |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 pay | 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 | pay | present | Dangerous jobs | more | often property | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Asset | |||
| 2 | get | to-infinitive | Dangerous jobs not said here | people | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | do | to-infinitive | people not said here | people | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | call | present · passive | this | sometimes property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
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:14.
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, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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