--- title: Grown-ups then make a budget, cut treats, buy own-brand food, wait f… — When money is tight · tree and pragmatics description: Grown-ups then make a budget, cut treats, buy own-brand food, wait for sales and save up instead of borrowing. Who acts: Grown ups. 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/9-when-money-is-tight/2/) [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/) / [When money is tight](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/9-when-money-is-tight/) / 2 # When money is tight, sentence 2 Grown-ups then make a budget, cut treats, buy own-brand food, wait for sales and save up instead of borrowing. **Who acts:** Grown ups · **What happens:** make, cut, buy, wait, save up, borrow · **To what, where:** budget, treats, own brand food 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 (Grown ups), 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:2 # text = Grown-ups then make a budget, cut treats, buy own-brand food, wait for sales and save up instead of borrowing. # 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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Grown grow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 compound _ _ 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 3 punct _ _ 3 ups grown-up NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 4 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 5 advmod _ _ 5 make make VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 budget budget NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct 9 cut cut VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 10 treats treat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:conj 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 buy buy VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:parataxis 13 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 14 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 16 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 15 brand brand NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 16 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 wait wait VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:parataxis 19 for for ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 sales sale NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 save save VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 23 up up ADP RP _ 22 compound:prt _ _ 24 instead instead ADV RB ExtPos=SCONJ 26 mark _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 24 fixed _ _ 26 borrowing borrow VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 22 advcl _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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 | **make** | infinitive | Grown ups | a budget | | | then | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset budget=Product | | 2 | **cut** | infinitive | Grown ups *not said here* | treats | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset treat=Product | | 3 | **buy** | infinitive | Grown ups *not said here* | own brand food | | | | | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme | | 4 | **wait** | infinitive | Grown ups *not said here* | | | | | for sales | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **save up** | infinitive | Grown ups *not said here* | | | | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **borrow** | gerund | Grown ups *not said here* | | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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:009-when-money-is-tight.lesson:2`. **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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3, 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/). - ← previous: [When money is tight, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/9-when-money-is-tight/1/) - next →: [When money is tight, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/9-when-money-is-tight/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/9-when-money-is-tight/)