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title: Small spends like coffees and snacks add up fast; managing money mea… — Money, work and the big choices · tree and pragmatics
description: Small spends like coffees and snacks add up fast; managing money means knowing what comes in and what goes out. Who acts: Small spends, managing. A sentence of the lesson «Money, work and the big choices» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# Money, work and the big choices, sentence 7

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Small spends like coffees and snacks add up fast; managing money means knowing what comes in and what goes out.

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**Who acts:** Small spends, managing · **What happens:** add up, manage, mean, know, come in, go out · **To what, where:** money · **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 (Small spends, managing), 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:7
# text = Small spends like coffees and snacks add up fast; managing money means knowing what comes in and what goes out.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	spends	spend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
3	like	like	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	coffees	coffee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	snacks	snack	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
7	add	add	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	up	up	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
11	managing	manage	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	csubj	_	_
12	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
14	knowing	know	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	xcomp	_	_
15	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	16	nsubj	_	_
16	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	ccomp	_	_
17	in	in	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	20	nsubj	_	_
20	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
21	out	out	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **add up** *speech: assert* | present | Small spends like coffees and snacks |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **manage** | gerund |  | money |  |  |  |  | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme |
| 3 | **mean** | present | managing |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **know** *not said to happen* | gerund | managing *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 5 | **come in** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **go out** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=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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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:adult-life:039-money-work-and-the-big-choices.lesson:7`.

**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 ×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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