--- title: «Money spent fast is fun fast and gone fast,» said his gran, butteri… — Gift cards and birthday money: making it last · tree and pragmatics description: «Money spent fast is fun fast and gone fast,» said his gran, buttering toast, as if she had been waiting years to say it. Who acts: Money, gran. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Money, gran), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:415-gift-cards-and-birthday-money.lesson:2 # text = «Money spent fast is fun fast and gone fast,» said his gran, buttering toast, as if she had been waiting years to say it. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 415-gift-cards-and-birthday-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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ _ 2 Money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 3 spent spend VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 2 acl _ _ 4 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 3 advmod _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 6 fun fun ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 fast fast ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:parataxis 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 gone go VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 7 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:conj|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 10 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 9 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:advmod 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 » » PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ _ 13 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 gran gran NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 buttering butter VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 advcl _ _ 18 toast toast NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 20 as as SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 21 if if SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 22 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 23 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 24 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 25 aux _ _ 25 waiting wait VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 advcl _ _ 26 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ _ 27 to to PART TO _ 28 mark _ _ 28 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 advcl _ _ 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obj _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **spend** *in a quote* | participle | | Money *not said here* | | | | fast *property* | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Money | | | | | fast *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **go** *in a quote* | participle | Money *not said here* | | | | | fast *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Leo's gran | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **butter** | gerund | Leo's gran *not said here* | toast | | | | | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent toast=Destination | | 6 | **wait** | past · perfect · progressive | gran | | | | year | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | gran *not said here* | toast | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic | 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. **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:415-gift-cards-and-birthday-money.lesson:2`. **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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1. **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/). - ← previous: [Gift cards and birthday money: making…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/415-gift-cards-and-birthday-money/1/) - next →: [Gift cards and birthday money: making…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/415-gift-cards-and-birthday-money/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/415-gift-cards-and-birthday-money/)