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title: He started saving again, and this time he kept the money in a jar wh… — Promises to friends and to yourself · tree and pragmatics
description: He started saving again, and this time he kept the money in a jar where he could see it grow. Who acts: Josh, money. A sentence of the lesson «Promises to friends and to yourself» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Promises to friends and to yourself, sentence 7

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He started saving again, and this time he kept the money in a jar where he could see it grow.

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**Who acts:** Josh, money · **What happens:** start, save, keep, see, grow · **To what, where:** money, jar

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Promises to friends and to yourself» 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 (Josh, money), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:359-promises-to-friends-and-to-yourself.lesson:7
# text = He started saving again, and this time he kept the money in a jar where he could see it grow.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 359-promises-to-friends-and-to-yourself.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	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	saving	save	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	xcomp	_	_
4	again	again	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl:unmarked	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	jar	jar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
16	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	19	advmod	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	acl:relcl	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **start** | past | Josh |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **save** | gerund | Josh *not said here* |  |  |  | again |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **keep** | past | Josh | the money |  | a jar | time |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent money=Theme in jar=Location |
| 4 | **see** | could | Josh | money |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **grow** | infinitive | money *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:359-promises-to-friends-and-to-yourself.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): 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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