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title: Saving means putting money aside now for something bigger later, or… — Money, work and the big choices · tree and pragmatics
description: Saving means putting money aside now for something bigger later, or for emergencies like a broken boiler. 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 of every clause.
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# Money, work and the big choices, sentence 8

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Saving means putting money aside now for something bigger later, or for emergencies like a broken boiler.

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**What happens:** save, mean, put, break · **To what, where:** money

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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: 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:8
# text = Saving means putting money aside now for something bigger later, or for emergencies like a broken boiler.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Saving	save	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	nsubj	_	_
2	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	putting	put	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	xcomp	_	_
4	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	aside	aside	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
6	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	3	obl	_	_
9	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:amod
10	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	3	advmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	emergencies	emergency	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
15	like	like	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	amod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=18:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
18	boiler	boiler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
19	.	.	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 | **save** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **mean** | present |  |  |  |  |  | for emergencies like a broken boiler | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **put** *not said to happen* | gerund |  | money |  |  | now | for something; aside, late *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent money=Goal |
| 4 | **break** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

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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: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): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-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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