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title: "Careful with money" is a kind way to say stingy (hating to spend or… — Soft words for hard things: money and poverty · tree and pragmatics
description: "Careful with money" is a kind way to say stingy (hating to spend or share money). Who acts: Careful. A sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: money and poverty» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Soft words for hard things: money and poverty, sentence 17

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"Careful with money" is a kind way to say stingy (hating to spend or share money).

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**Who acts:** Careful · **What happens:** be, say, hate, spend, share · **To what, where:** kind way, stingy, money · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: money and poverty» of the euphemisms 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 (Careful), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:euphemisms:019-money-and-poverty.lesson:17
# text = "Careful with money" is a kind way to say stingy (hating to spend or share money).
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = euphemisms
# lesson = 019-money-and-poverty.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, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Careful	careful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	nsubj	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:obl
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	acl	_	_
12	stingy	stingy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	obj	_	_
13	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	14	punct	_	_
14	hating	hate	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	spend	spend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	share	share	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
19	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
20	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	14	punct	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | Careful | a kind way |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive |  | stingy |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent stingy=Topic |
| 3 | **hate** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **spend** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **share** | infinitive |  | money |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:euphemisms:019-money-and-poverty.lesson:17`.

**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, R6-punct-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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