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title: Putting money in a money box regularly, without opening it, lets sma… — Pocket money, saving and spending · tree and pragmatics
description: Putting money in a money box regularly, without opening it, lets small amounts add up: £1 a week for a year (52 weeks) makes £52. Who acts: Putting, small amounts. A sentence of the lesson «Pocket money, saving and spending» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree an
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# Pocket money, saving and spending, sentence 7

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Putting money in a money box regularly, without opening it, lets small amounts add up: £1 a week for a year (52 weeks) makes £52.

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**Who acts:** Putting, small amounts · **What happens:** put, open, let, add up, make · **To what, where:** money, money box, small amounts

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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 (Putting, 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:7
# text = Putting money in a money box regularly, without opening it, lets small amounts add up: £1 a week for a year (52 weeks) makes £52.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Putting	put	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:nsubj
2	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
7	regularly	regularly	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
9	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	opening	open	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	advcl	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
13	lets	let	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	parataxis	_	_
14	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	amounts	amount	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	add	add	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
17	up	up	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
19	£	£	SYM	$	_	16	obj	_	_
20	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:obl:unmarked
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
26	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	28	punct	_	_
27	52	52	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	28	nummod	_	_
28	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	appos	_	_
29	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	28	punct	_	_
30	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
31	£	£	SYM	$	_	30	obj	_	_
32	52	52	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	31	nummod	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=30: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 | **put** | gerund |  | money |  | a money box |  | regularly *property* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent money=Theme in box=Destination |
| 2 | **open** | gerund |  | money |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme |
| 3 | **let** | present | Putting | small amounts |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **add up** *speech: assert* | infinitive | small amounts *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent £=Patient |
| 5 | **make** | present |  |  |  |  | year |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset £=Product |

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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:7`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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