--- title: Pocket money is a small regular amount given to children to practise… — Where money comes from · tree and pragmatics description: Pocket money is a small regular amount given to children to practise choosing, saving and making mistakes with money. Who acts: Pocket money. A sentence of the lesson «Where money comes from» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/5-where-money-comes-from/8/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Adult life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/) / [Where money comes from](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/5-where-money-comes-from/) / 8 # Where money comes from, sentence 8 Pocket money is a small regular amount given to children to practise choosing, saving and making mistakes with money. **Who acts:** Pocket money · **What happens:** be, give, practise, choose, save, make · **To what, where:** small regular amount, children, mistakes This is a sentence of the lesson «Where money comes from» 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 (Pocket money), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:005-where-money-comes-from.lesson:8 # text = Pocket money is a small regular amount given to children to practise choosing, saving and making mistakes with money. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 005-where-money-comes-from.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 1 Pocket pocket NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 5 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 6 regular regular ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 amount amount NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 given give VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 acl _ _ 9 to to ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 practise practise VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 advcl _ _ 13 choosing choose VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 12 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:obj 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 saving save VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 13 conj _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 making make VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 13 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=15:conj 18 mistakes mistake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 19 with with ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 21 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Pocket money | a small regular amount | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **give** | participle | | a small regular amount *not said here* | children | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to child=Recipient | | 3 | **practise** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **choose** | gerund | | | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **save** | gerund | | | | | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **make** | gerund | | mistakes | | | | with money | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset mistake=Product | 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](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:005-where-money-comes-from.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): R3-conj-first ×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/). - ← previous: [Where money comes from, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/5-where-money-comes-from/7/) - next →: [Where money comes from, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/5-where-money-comes-from/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/5-where-money-comes-from/)