--- title: Saving a part of every gift adds up faster than most people expect. — Gift cards and birthday money: making it last · tree and pragmatics description: Saving a part of every gift adds up faster than most people expect. Who acts: Saving, most people. A sentence of the lesson «Gift cards and birthday money: making it last» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [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/24/) [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…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/415-gift-cards-and-birthday-money/) / 24 # Gift cards and birthday money: making it last, sentence 24 Saving a part of every gift adds up faster than most people expect. **Who acts:** Saving, most people · **What happens:** save, add up, expect · **To what, where:** part · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Gift cards and birthday money: making it last» 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 (Saving, most people), 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:24 # text = Saving a part of every gift adds up faster than most people expect. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Saving save VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 csubj _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 6 det _ _ 6 gift gift NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 7 adds add VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 up up ADP RP _ 7 compound:prt _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 9 faster fast ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 7 advmod _ _ 10 than than SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 11 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 12 amod _ _ 12 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 13 expect expect VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 14 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **save** | gerund | | a part of every gift | | | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme | | 2 | **add up** *speech: assert* | present | Saving | | | | | fast *property* | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **expect** | present | most people | | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | 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:24`. **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): 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…, 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/415-gift-cards-and-birthday-money/23/) - next →: [Gift cards and birthday money: making…, 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/415-gift-cards-and-birthday-money/25/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/415-gift-cards-and-birthday-money/)