--- title: Gift cards and birthday money: making it last — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Gift cards and birthday money: making it last», a lesson of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Leo got three gift cards for his birthday and felt like a millionaire. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/415-gift-cards-and-birthday-money/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / Gift cards and birthday money: making… # Gift cards and birthday money: making it last Lesson 415 of the everyday course of Mova's primary school: 30 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/415-gift-cards-and-birthday-money/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/415-gift-cards-and-birthday-money/0/) — Leo got three gift cards for his birthday and felt like a millionaire. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/415-gift-cards-and-birthday-money/1/) — By nine o'clock that evening he had spent all three — a skin, a glider, an emote of a dancing hot dog — and at breakfast the next morning he had nothing left to look forward to. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/415-gift-cards-and-birthday-money/2/) — «Money spent fast is fun fast and gone fast,» said his gran, buttering toast, as if she had been waiting years to say it. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/415-gift-cards-and-birthday-money/3/) — Mia did the opposite: she wanted a new game, saw it would probably go on sale, and waited three whole impatient months. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/415-gift-cards-and-birthday-money/4/) — She paid half price and bought a second game with the rest. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/415-gift-cards-and-birthday-money/5/) — Ollie lost his gift card in the worst way possible: he threw the paper with the code in the recycling. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/415-gift-cards-and-birthday-money/6/) — He felt sick. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/415-gift-cards-and-birthday-money/7/) — His mum helped him contact the shop with the receipt, and luckily they found the card again. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/415-gift-cards-and-birthday-money/8/) — Now Ollie knows a code on paper is money on paper. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/415-gift-cards-and-birthday-money/9/) — Kai earned his gift card himself, selling old toys at a car boot sale (a market where people sell old things from their cars) on a freezing Sunday, and because he remembered the cold, he spent it far more carefully than any birthday money before. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/415-gift-cards-and-birthday-money/10/) — Theo's grandma sent twenty pounds in cash, and Theo announced it was all going on games. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/415-gift-cards-and-birthday-money/11/) — His mum suggested half for games and half for saving; he grumbled like a grumpy pirate, but agreed. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/415-gift-cards-and-birthday-money/12/) — Zara got a gift card for a game she does not even play, felt a little disappointed, thanked her uncle anyway, and swapped it with her mum for one she could use. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/415-gift-cards-and-birthday-money/13/) — Ruby's friend asked to borrow her gift card, and Ruby said no, kindly — her mum had said the card was for her, and money between friends goes wrong when the rules are fuzzy. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/415-gift-cards-and-birthday-money/14/) — Gift money can make other people happy too. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/415-gift-cards-and-birthday-money/15/) — Priya used her aunt's gift card to buy her aunt's favourite character in the game, and her aunt laughed so much that she started playing herself. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/415-gift-cards-and-birthday-money/16/) — Noah bought a game for his little sister Isla as well as his own, and Isla followed him round the house for a week saying «thank you» until he begged her to stop. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/415-gift-cards-and-birthday-money/17/) — Jayden kept a notebook of everything he bought with his gift cards; at the end of the year he read it and saw that most of the things he had paid for he had never really used. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/415-gift-cards-and-birthday-money/18/) — He called the notebook «the book of truth». - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/415-gift-cards-and-birthday-money/19/) — A gift card holds real money that can only be spent in one shop or service. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/415-gift-cards-and-birthday-money/20/) — The code on a gift card works like money; if someone else sees it, they can spend it. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/415-gift-cards-and-birthday-money/21/) — Keep gift card codes and receipts safe until the card is used. - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/415-gift-cards-and-birthday-money/23/) — Games often go on sale for much less than their first price, so waiting can save money. - [24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/415-gift-cards-and-birthday-money/24/) — Saving a part of every gift adds up faster than most people expect. - [25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/415-gift-cards-and-birthday-money/25/) — Money you earned yourself usually makes you spend more carefully. - [26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/415-gift-cards-and-birthday-money/26/) — Writing down what you spend shows you the truth about where your money goes. - [27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/415-gift-cards-and-birthday-money/27/) — It is fine to say no, kindly, when someone asks to borrow your money. - [28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/415-gift-cards-and-birthday-money/28/) — Spending some of your money on someone else can be one of the best ways to enjoy it. - [29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/415-gift-cards-and-birthday-money/29/) — Saying thank you for a gift matters even when the gift is not quite right. - [30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/415-gift-cards-and-birthday-money/30/) — Anyone who asks you to pay them in gift cards, or to read them a gift card code, is almost certainly a scammer. - ← previous: [Mum's card: game money is real money](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/414-mums-card/) - next →: [«Free V-bucks» and other scams](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/416-free-v-bucks-and-other-scams/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/)