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title: Picture Dad's plan for a £1,200 holiday: £100 a month for 12 months,… — Saving for holidays and big things · tree and pragmatics
description: Picture Dad's plan for a £1,200 holiday: £100 a month for 12 months, and by next summer the money is there, with nothing to pay back afterwards. Who acts: you, money, Dad. A sentence of the lesson «Saving for holidays and big things» of the money course of Mova's primary school with its dependency t
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# Saving for holidays and big things, sentence 1

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Picture Dad's plan for a £1,200 holiday: £100 a month for 12 months, and by next summer the money is there, with nothing to pay back afterwards.

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**Who acts:** you, money, Dad · **What happens:** picture, be, pay back, plan · **To what, where:** plan

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Saving for holidays and big things» 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 (you, money, Dad), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:money:025-saving-for-holidays-and-big-things.lesson:1
# text = Picture Dad's plan for a £1,200 holiday: £100 a month for 12 months, and by next summer the money is there, with nothing to pay back afterwards.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = money
# lesson = 025-saving-for-holidays-and-big-things.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	Picture	picture	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	Dad	Dad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	£	£	SYM	$	_	9	compound	_	_
8	1,200	1200	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
9	holiday	holiday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
11	£	£	SYM	$	_	1	parataxis	_	_
12	100	100	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod:unmarked	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
20	by	by	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
26	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	11	appos	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	acl	_	_
32	back	back	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
33	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **picture** | imperative | you *not said here* | Dad's plan |  |  |  | for a £ holiday | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent plan=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | the money |  |  |  | summer | there *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **pay back** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | afterwards *property* | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **plan** |  | Dad |  |  |  |  | for a £ holiday | nom plan «cognition transitive»: poss=agent for=obl |

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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:025-saving-for-holidays-and-big-things.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): 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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