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title: A budget is a plan for how you will spend and save your money. — Taking care of your things and money · tree and pragmatics
description: A budget is a plan for how you will spend and save your money. Who acts: budget, you. A sentence of the lesson «Taking care of your things and money» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Taking care of your things and money, sentence 16

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A budget is a plan for how you will spend and save your money.

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**Who acts:** budget, you · **What happens:** be, spend, save · **To what, where:** plan, money

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Taking care of your things and money» 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 (budget, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:037-things-and-money.lesson:16
# text = A budget is a plan for how you will spend and save your money.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 037-things-and-money.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	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	budget	budget	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
7	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	spend	spend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	save	save	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
13	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **is a** | present | a budget | a plan |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **spend** | future | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **save** | infinitive | you *not said here* | your money |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=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:037-things-and-money.lesson:16`.

**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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