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title: Money has three jobs: you spend it, you save it for later, and you u… — What money is and why people accept it · tree and pragmatics
description: Money has three jobs: you spend it, you save it for later, and you use it to compare prices. Who acts: Money, you. A sentence of the lesson «What money is and why people accept it» of the money course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# What money is and why people accept it, sentence 8

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Money has three jobs: you spend it, you save it for later, and you use it to compare prices.

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**Who acts:** Money, you · **What happens:** have, spend, save, use, compare · **To what, where:** three jobs, coin, prices

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This is a sentence of the lesson «What money is and why people accept it» of the money 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 (Money, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:money:001-what-money-is-and-why-people-accept-it.lesson:8
# text = Money has three jobs: you spend it, you save it for later, and you use it to compare prices.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = money
# lesson = 001-what-money-is-and-why-people-accept-it.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): no change
1	Money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	jobs	job	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	spend	spend	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	save	save	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	11	advmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	compare	compare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
22	prices	price	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **have** | present | Money | three jobs |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Patient |
| 2 | **spend** | present | you | coin |  |  |  |  | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Asset |
| 3 | **save** | present | you | coin |  |  |  | late *property* | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 4 | **use** | present | you | coin |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 5 | **compare** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | prices |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent price=Patient |

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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:money:001-what-money-is-and-why-people-accept-it.lesson:8`.

**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): no change. **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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