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title: A girl in Texas called Ana spent all her pocket money on sweets ever… — Pocket money, saving and spending · tree and pragmatics
description: A girl in Texas called Ana spent all her pocket money on sweets every week; when her bike tyre burst she had nothing saved and walked to school for a month. Who acts: girl, bike tyre, tyre. A sentence of the lesson «Pocket money, saving and spending» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school w
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# Pocket money, saving and spending, sentence 17

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A girl in Texas called Ana spent all her pocket money on sweets every week; when her bike tyre burst she had nothing saved and walked to school for a month.

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**Who acts:** girl, bike tyre, tyre · **What happens:** call, spend, burst, have, save, walk · **To what, where:** girl, Ana, sweets, nothing · **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 (girl, bike tyre, tyre), 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:17
# text = A girl in Texas called Ana spent all her pocket money on sweets every week; when her bike tyre burst she had nothing saved and walked to school for a month.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Texas	Texas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
6	Ana	Ana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
7	spent	spend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	11	det:predet	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:det:predet|HaikuPos=DET:DT:PronType=Tot
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	pocket	pocket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	sweets	sweet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
14	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	det	_	_
15	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
17	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	21	mark	_	_
18	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	bike	bike	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	tyre	tyre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	burst	burst	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	_
22	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
24	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	23	obj	_	_
25	saved	save	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	acl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
30	for	for	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **call** | participle |  | a girl in Texas *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **spend** | past | a girl in Texas | Ana |  | sweets | week |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **burst** | past | girl's bike tyre |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **have** | past | tyre | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient |
| 5 | **save** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **walk** | past | tyre *not said here* |  |  |  | month | to school *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to school=Result |

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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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**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): 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/).

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