Why some jobs pay more, sentence 5
Jobs that need long training and rare skills usually pay more, because fewer people can do them and they are in demand.
Who acts: Jobs, fewer people, people · What happens: need, pay, do, be · To what, where: long training, more, skills, demand
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 (Jobs, fewer people, 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 | Jobs | job | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 pay | nsubj |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 need | nsubj |
| 3 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Jobs | acl:relcl |
| 4 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 training | amod |
| 5 | training | training | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 need | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 skills | cc |
| 7 | rare | rare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 skills | amod |
| 8 | skills | skill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 training | conj |
| 9 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 10 pay | advmod |
| 10 | pay | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 pay | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 do | punct |
| 13 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 17 do | mark |
| 14 | fewer | few | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 people | amod |
| 15 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 do | nsubj |
| 16 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 do | aux |
| 17 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 pay | advcl |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 do | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 demand | cc |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 demand | nsubj |
| 21 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 demand | cop |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 demand | case |
| 23 | demand | demand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 do | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 pay | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | need | present | Jobs | long training and rare skills | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot training=Theme | ||||
| 2 | pay | present | Jobs | more | usually property | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Asset | |||
| 3 | do | can | fewer people | skills = skill | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | is | present | people | demand | 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:5.
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 ×2, R6-punct-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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