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title: Small amounts add up: a girl in Texas who puts two dollars a week in… — Coins, pocket money, saving, spending wisely and… · tree and pragmatics
description: Small amounts add up: a girl in Texas who puts two dollars a week in her piggy bank and does not keep opening it has over one hundred dollars after a year (a year has 52 weeks, so that is 104 dollars). Who acts: Small amounts, girl, bank, year. A sentence of the lesson «Coins, pocket money, saving, 
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# Coins, pocket money, saving, spending wisely and planning time, sentence 6

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Small amounts add up: a girl in Texas who puts two dollars a week in her piggy bank and does not keep opening it has over one hundred dollars after a year (a year has 52 weeks, so that is 104 dollars).

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**Who acts:** Small amounts, girl, bank, year, that · **What happens:** add up, put, not keep, open, have over, have · **To what, where:** two dollars, piggy bank, hundred dollars, 104 dollars

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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 (Small amounts, girl, bank, year), 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:6
# text = Small amounts add up: a girl in Texas who puts two dollars a week in her piggy bank and does not keep opening it has over one hundred dollars after a year (a year has 52 weeks, so that is 104 dollars).
# 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 ×4, R7-rel-agree ×3
1	Small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	amounts	amount	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	add	add	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Texas	Texas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	puts	put	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	dollars	dollar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod:unmarked	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	piggy	piggy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
23	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
24	opening	open	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	xcomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:mark
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	ccomp	_	_
27	over	over	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
28	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	compound	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:nummod
29	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
30	dollars	dollar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:obl
31	after	after	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:nmod
34	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	37	punct	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
37	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	parataxis	_	_
38	52	52	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	39	nummod	_	_
39	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=37:obl:unmarked
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
41	so	so	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=45:case|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_
42	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	45	nsubj	_	_
43	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	45	cop	_	_
44	104	104	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	45	nummod	_	_
45	dollars	dollar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	appos	_	_
46	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	45	punct	_	_
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **add up** *speech: assert* | present | Small amounts |  |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **put** | present | a girl in Texas | two dollars  a week |  | girl's piggy bank |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent dollar=Theme in bank=Destination |
| 3 | **not** **keep** | present · do-support | a girl in Texas *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **open** | gerund | a girl in Texas *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **have over** | present | bank | hundred dollars |  |  | year |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dollar=Patient |
| 6 | **have** | present | a year |  |  |  | week |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **is a** | present | that | 104 dollars |  |  |  |  | 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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**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 ×4, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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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