--- title: Writing savings goals down helps a family choose what comes first; g… — Saving for holidays and big things · tree and pragmatics description: Writing savings goals down helps a family choose what comes first; goals of £600, £1,500 and £400 add up to £2,500. Who acts: Writing, family, goals. A sentence of the lesson «Saving for holidays and big things» of the money course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/25-saving-for-holidays-and-big-things/13/) [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/) / [Money](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/) / [Saving for holidays and big things](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/25-saving-for-holidays-and-big-things/) / 13 # Saving for holidays and big things, sentence 13 Writing savings goals down helps a family choose what comes first; goals of £600, £1,500 and £400 add up to £2,500. **Who acts:** Writing, family, goals · **What happens:** write down, help, choose, come, add up · **To what, where:** savings goals 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 (Writing, family, goals), 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:13 # text = Writing savings goals down helps a family choose what comes first; goals of £600, £1,500 and £400 add up to £2,500. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Writing write VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 csubj _ _ 2 savings savings NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 3 compound _ _ 3 goals goal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obj _ _ 4 down down ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_ 5 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 choose choose VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 xcomp _ _ 9 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 10 nsubj _ _ 10 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 ccomp _ _ 11 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 10 advmod _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 goals goal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 £ £ SYM $ _ 13 nmod _ _ 16 600 600 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 15 nummod _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct 18 £ £ SYM $ _ 15 conj _ _ 19 1,500 1,500 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 18 nummod _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=15:cc 21 £ £ SYM $ _ 15 conj _ _ 22 400 400 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 21 nummod _ _ 23 add add VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 24 up up ADP RP _ 23 compound:prt _ _ 25 to to ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 £ £ SYM $ _ 23 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:obj 27 2,500 2,500 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 26 nummod _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **write down** | gerund | | savings goals | | | | down *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goal=Theme | | 2 | **help** | present | Writing | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 3 | **choose** | infinitive | a family | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **come** | present | | | | | | first *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **add up** *speech: assert* | infinitive | goals | | | | | | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to £=Co-Patient | 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:money:025-saving-for-holidays-and-big-things.lesson:13`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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: [Saving for holidays and big things, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/25-saving-for-holidays-and-big-things/12/) - next →: [Saving for holidays and big things, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/25-saving-for-holidays-and-big-things/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/25-saving-for-holidays-and-big-things/)