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title: A budget is the amount of money set aside for something, like food f… — Looking after yourself and a home · tree and pragmatics
description: A budget is the amount of money set aside for something, like food for the week; putting things back on the shelf is a way to stay within it. Who acts: budget, putting. A sentence of the lesson «Looking after yourself and a home» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency 
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# Looking after yourself and a home, sentence 9

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A budget is the amount of money set aside for something, like food for the week; putting things back on the shelf is a way to stay within it.

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**Who acts:** budget, putting · **What happens:** be, set, put back, stay · **To what, where:** amount, money, things, shelf, way

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Looking after yourself and a home» of the adult life 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 (budget, putting), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:adult-life:038-looking-after-yourself-and-a-home.lesson:9
# text = A budget is the amount of money set aside for something, like food for the week; putting things back on the shelf is a way to stay within it.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = adult-life
# lesson = 038-looking-after-yourself-and-a-home.lesson
# annotation = 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 ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	budget	budget	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	amount	amount	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	aside	aside	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	8	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	like	like	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:conj
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
19	putting	put	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	27	csubj	_	_
20	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
21	back	back	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	shelf	shelf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	acl	_	_
30	within	within	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obl	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | a budget | the amount |  |  |  | of money | tree rules |
| 2 | **set** | participle |  | money *not said here* |  |  |  | for something; aside *property* | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for something=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **put back** | gerund |  | things |  | the shelf |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme on shelf=Destination |
| 4 | **is a** | present | putting | a way |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **stay** | to-infinitive | a budget *not said here* |  |  |  |  | within budget | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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.

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**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 ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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