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title: A budget is a plan for money: what comes in, what must go out on bil… — When money is tight · tree and pragmatics
description: A budget is a plan for money: what comes in, what must go out on bills, and what is left for food, fun and saving. Who acts: budget, plan. A sentence of the lesson «When money is tight» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# When money is tight, sentence 16

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A budget is a plan for money: what comes in, what must go out on bills, and what is left for food, fun and saving.

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**Who acts:** budget, plan · **What happens:** be, come in, go out, leave · **To what, where:** plan, bills

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This is a sentence of the lesson «When money is tight» 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, plan), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:adult-life:009-when-money-is-tight.lesson:16
# text = A budget is a plan for money: what comes in, what must go out on bills, and what is left for food, fun and saving.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = adult-life
# lesson = 009-when-money-is-tight.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	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
9	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	10	nsubj	_	_
10	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
11	in	in	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	15	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:obj
14	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:acl:relcl
16	out	out	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	bills	bill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	23	nsubj	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	acl:relcl	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	fun	fun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	saving	saving	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
30	.	.	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 | a plan |  |  |  | for money | tree rules |
| 2 | **come in** | present | a plan |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **go out** | must |  |  |  | bills |  | out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **leave** | present · passive |  | a plan |  |  |  | for food and fun and saving | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme for food=Recipient |

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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:009-when-money-is-tight.lesson:16`.

**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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