Why some jobs pay more, sentence 9
A nurse earning about £35,000 a year needs about 3 years to earn £100,000, which that footballer earns in a single week.
Who acts: nurse, footballer · What happens: earn, need
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 (nurse, footballer), 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 nurse | det |
| 2 | nurse | nurse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 needs | nsubj |
| 3 | earning | earn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 nurse | acl |
| 4 | about | about | ADV | _ | 5 £ | advmod |
| 5 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 3 earning | obj |
| 6 | 35,000 | 35000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 £ | nummod |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 year | det |
| 8 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 earning | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | about | about | ADV | _ | 11 3 | advmod |
| 11 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 years | nummod |
| 12 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 needs | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 earn | mark |
| 14 | earn | earn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 needs | advcl |
| 15 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 14 earn | obj |
| 16 | 100,000 | 100000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 £ | nummod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 earns | punct |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 earns | obj |
| 19 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 footballer | det |
| 20 | footballer | footballer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 earns | nsubj |
| 21 | earns | earn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 £ | acl:relcl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 week | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 week | det |
| 24 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 week | amod |
| 25 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 earns | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 needs | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | earn | gerund | a nurse not said here | year | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent £=Theme | ||||
| 2 | need | present | a nurse | year | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 3 | earn | to-infinitive | a nurse not said here | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent £=Theme | |||||
| 4 | earn | present | that footballer | week | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=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:9.
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 ×3. 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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