--- title: Saving first beats borrowing: put the holiday on a credit card and y… — Saving for holidays and big things · tree and pragmatics description: Saving first beats borrowing: put the holiday on a credit card and you are still paying for the beach at Christmas, plus interest. Who acts: Saving, you. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Saving, you), 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:2 # text = Saving first beats borrowing: put the holiday on a credit card and you are still paying for the beach at Christmas, plus interest. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Saving save VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:nsubj 2 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 1 advmod _ _ 3 beats beat VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 borrowing borrow VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 obj _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 3 punct _ _ 6 put put VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 holiday holiday NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 on on ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 credit credit NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 card card NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 14 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 15 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 16 still still ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 paying pay VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 conj _ _ 18 for for ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 beach beach NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 21 at at ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 Christmas Christmas PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 plus plus CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 interest interest NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **save** | gerund | | | | | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **beat** | present | Saving | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **borrow** | gerund | | | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **put** | infinitive | | the holiday | | a credit card | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent holiday=Theme on card=Destination | | 5 | **pay** | present · progressive | you | interest | | Christmas | still | for the beach | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for beach=Theme | 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:2`. **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/). - ← previous: [Saving for holidays and big things, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/25-saving-for-holidays-and-big-things/1/) - next →: [Saving for holidays and big things, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/25-saving-for-holidays-and-big-things/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/25-saving-for-holidays-and-big-things/)