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title: A boy in Ohio carried all his savings to the shops in an open pocket… — Coins, pocket money, saving, spending wisely and… · tree and pragmatics
description: A boy in Ohio carried all his savings to the shops in an open pocket; it fell out, and months of saving were gone in an afternoon. Who acts: boy, host. A sentence of the lesson «Coins, pocket money, saving, spending wisely and planning time» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its d
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# Coins, pocket money, saving, spending wisely and planning time, sentence 20

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A boy in Ohio carried all his savings to the shops in an open pocket; it fell out, and months of saving were gone in an afternoon.

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**Who acts:** boy, host · **What happens:** carry, fall out, go, save · **To what, where:** savings, open pocket, months

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Coins, pocket money, saving, spending wisely and planning time» 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 (boy, host), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:308-coins-pocket-money-saving-and-planning-time.lesson:20
# text = A boy in Ohio carried all his savings to the shops in an open pocket; it fell out, and months of saving were gone in an afternoon.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 308-coins-pocket-money-saving-and-planning-time.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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Ohio	Ohio	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:det|HaikuPos=DET:DT:PronType=Tot
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	savings	savings	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	5	obj	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	shops	shop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:nmod
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	pocket	pocket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:nmod
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
19	out	out	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
22	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	saving	saving	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=22:nmod|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part
25	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:conj
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **carry** | past | a boy in Ohio | boy's savings |  | a open pocket |  | to the shops | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent savings=Theme to shop=Destination |
| 2 | **fall out** | past | host |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **go** | past · passive |  | months of saving |  |  | afternoon |  | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **save** |  | boy |  |  |  |  |  | nom savings «possession transitive»: poss=agent |

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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): R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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