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title: Looking after your things is like saving money too: a bike kept dry… — Taking care of your things and money · tree and pragmatics
description: Looking after your things is like saving money too: a bike kept dry and oiled, a coat with your name in it and a phone in a case all last longer and do not need to be bought again. Who acts: Looking, your. A sentence of the lesson «Taking care of your things and money» of the everyday course of Mova
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# Taking care of your things and money, sentence 9

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Looking after your things is like saving money too: a bike kept dry and oiled, a coat with your name in it and a phone in a case all last longer and do not need to be bought again.

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**Who acts:** Looking, your · **What happens:** look, be, keep, not need, buy, name · **To what, where:** coat, bike

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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 (Looking, your), 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:9
# text = Looking after your things is like saving money too: a bike kept dry and oiled, a coat with your name in it and a phone in a case all last longer and do not need to be bought again.
# 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): R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:nsubj
2	after	after	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:nmod
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	saving	save	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	too	too	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	bike	bike	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	advcl	_	_
14	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	oiled	oil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:conj
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
31	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	1	obl	_	_
32	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	31	nmod	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
35	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
36	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	37	advmod	_	_
37	need	need	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
38	to	to	PART	TO	_	40	mark	_	_
39	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	40	aux:pass	_	_
40	bought	buy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	37	xcomp	_	_
41	again	again	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **look** | gerund |  | a coat with your name and a phone in a case |  |  | after your things | in Money; all *obl* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in it=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | Looking |  |  |  |  | save *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **keep** | participle · passive |  | a bike |  |  |  | dry *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **need** | present · do-support |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 5 | **buy** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive · passive |  |  |  |  | again |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S» |
| 6 | **name** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication 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 ×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.

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