Why some jobs pay more, sentence 8
A top footballer might earn £100,000 a week, which is 52 × £100,000 = £5,200,000 a year, because millions pay to watch and buy shirts.
Who acts: top footballer, millions · What happens: earn, pay, watch, buy · To what, where: shirts
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 (top footballer, millions), 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 | 3 footballer | det |
| 2 | top | top | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 footballer | amod |
| 3 | footballer | footballer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 earn | nsubj |
| 4 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 earn | aux |
| 5 | earn | earn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 5 earn | obj |
| 7 | 100,000 | 100000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 £ | nummod |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 week | det |
| 9 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 earn | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 × | punct |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 × | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 × | cop |
| 13 | 52 | 52 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 × | nummod |
| 14 | × | × | SYM | Number=Sing | 9 week | acl:relcl |
| 15 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 18 £ | compound |
| 16 | 100,000 | 100000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 £ | nummod |
| 17 | = | = | SYM | _ | 18 £ | case |
| 18 | £ | £ | SYM | ExtPos=PROPN | 14 × | appos |
| 19 | 5,200,000 | 5,200,000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 18 £ | flat |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 year | det |
| 21 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 £ | obl:unmarked |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 pay | punct |
| 23 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 25 pay | mark |
| 24 | millions | million | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 pay | nsubj |
| 25 | pay | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 earn | advcl |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 watch | mark |
| 27 | watch | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 pay | xcomp |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 buy | cc |
| 29 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 watch | conj |
| 30 | shirts | shirt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 buy | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 earn | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | earn | might | a top footballer | week | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent £=Theme | ||||
| 2 | pay | present | millions | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | watch | to-infinitive | millions not said here | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | buy | infinitive | millions not said here | shirts | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shirt=Theme |
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:8.
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): no change. 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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