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title: A game costs 36 dollars; saving 4 dollars a week, it takes 36 ÷ 4 =… — Saving every week for a price · tree and pragmatics
description: A game costs 36 dollars; saving 4 dollars a week, it takes 36 ÷ 4 = 9 weeks. Who acts: game, it. A sentence of the lesson «Saving every week for a price» of the lessons course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Saving every week for a price, sentence 1

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A game costs 36 dollars; saving 4 dollars a week, it takes 36 ÷ 4 = 9 weeks.

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**Who acts:** game, it · **What happens:** cost, save, take · **To what, where:** 36 dollars, 4 dollars

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Saving every week for a price» of the lessons 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 (game, it), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:lessons:094-saving-weeks.lesson:1
# text = A game costs 36 dollars; saving 4 dollars a week, it takes 36 ÷ 4 = 9 weeks.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = lessons
# lesson = 094-saving-weeks.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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	costs	cost	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	36	36	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	dollars	dollar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	saving	save	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
8	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	dollars	dollar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:unmarked	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	takes	take	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
15	36	36	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	÷	÷	SYM	SYM	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	flat	_	_
18	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	16	flat	_	_
19	9	9	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	flat	_	_
20	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl:unmarked	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **cost** | present | a game | 36 dollars |  |  |  |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme dollar=Value |
| 2 | **save** | gerund |  | 4 dollars  a week |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dollar=Theme |
| 3 | **take** | present | it |  |  |  | week |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ÷=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:lessons:094-saving-weeks.lesson:1`.

**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): R7-rel-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/).

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