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title: None of them is made in one day; people save bit by bit, start with… — Money, work and the big choices · tree and pragmatics
description: None of them is made in one day; people save bit by bit, start with small jobs, revise for weeks and change their minds as they learn what they like. Who acts: people, courses. A sentence of the lesson «Money, work and the big choices» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its depen
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# Money, work and the big choices, sentence 1

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None of them is made in one day; people save bit by bit, start with small jobs, revise for weeks and change their minds as they learn what they like.

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**Who acts:** people, courses · **What happens:** make, save, start, revise, change, learn · **To what, where:** None, bit, minds · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Money, work and the big choices» 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 (people, courses), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:adult-life:039-money-work-and-the-big-choices.lesson:1
# text = None of them is made in one day; people save bit by bit, start with small jobs, revise for weeks and change their minds as they learn what they like.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = adult-life
# lesson = 039-money-work-and-the-big-choices.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	None	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	nmod	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	save	save	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
12	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	start	start	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	jobs	job	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	revise	revise	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=16:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
25	change	change	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
26	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	minds	mind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
28	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
29	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	learn	learn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	advcl	_	_
31	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	33	obj	_	_
32	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	like	like	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	ccomp	_	_
34	.	.	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 | **make** | present · passive |  | None |  |  | day |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 2 | **save** | present | people | bit |  |  |  | by bit | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=Theme |
| 3 | **start** | present | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with small jobs | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with job=Subeventuality |
| 4 | **revise** | present | people *not said here* |  |  |  | week |  | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **change** | present | people *not said here* | courses's minds |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Patient |
| 6 | **learn** | present | people |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 7 | **like** | present | people |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme |
| 8 | **mind** |  | courses *= course* |  |  |  |  |  | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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.

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

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