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title: Pocket money is kept somewhere safe, and you keep track of how much… — Pocket money, saving and spending · tree and pragmatics
description: Pocket money is kept somewhere safe, and you keep track of how much you have, so you always know what you can afford; small amounts put regularly into a money box add up over time. Who acts: you, small amounts. A sentence of the lesson «Pocket money, saving and spending» of the everyday course of Mo
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# Pocket money, saving and spending, sentence 0

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Pocket money is kept somewhere safe, and you keep track of how much you have, so you always know what you can afford; small amounts put regularly into a money box add up over time.

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**Who acts:** you, small amounts · **What happens:** keep, have, know, afford, put, add up · **To what, where:** Pocket money, track, small amounts, money box · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Pocket money, saving and spending» of the everyday 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 (you, small amounts), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:261-pocket-money-saving-and-spending.lesson:0
# text = Pocket money is kept somewhere safe, and you keep track of how much you have, so you always know what you can afford; small amounts put regularly into a money box add up over time.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 261-pocket-money-saving-and-spending.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): no change
1	Pocket	pocket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	somewhere	somewhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	4	advmod	_	_
6	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	advcl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	track	track	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
14	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	ccomp	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	21	advmod	_	_
21	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	parataxis	_	_
22	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	25	obj	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	afford	afford	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	ccomp	_	_
26	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	35	punct	_	_
27	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	amounts	amount	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nsubj	_	_
29	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	acl	_	_
30	regularly	regularly	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
31	into	into	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
35	add	add	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	_
36	up	up	ADP	RP	_	35	compound:prt	_	_
37	over	over	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **keep** | present · passive |  | Pocket money |  |  |  | somewhere *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **keep** | present | you | track |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent track=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **know** | present | you |  |  |  |  | always *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 5 | **afford** | can | you |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **put** | participle |  | small amounts *not said here* |  | a money box |  | regularly *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **add up** *speech: assert* | infinitive | small amounts |  |  |  | time |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: 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:everyday:261-pocket-money-saving-and-spending.lesson:0`.

**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): no change. **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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