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title: An emergency fund is money kept for unexpected costs; a £250 repair… — Saving for holidays and big things · tree and pragmatics
description: An emergency fund is money kept for unexpected costs; a £250 repair from a £500 pot leaves £250. Who acts: emergency fund, £ repair. 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 of every clause.
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# Saving for holidays and big things, sentence 6

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An emergency fund is money kept for unexpected costs; a £250 repair from a £500 pot leaves £250.

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**Who acts:** emergency fund, £ repair · **What happens:** be, keep, leave · **To what, where:** money

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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 (emergency fund, £ repair), 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:6
# text = An emergency fund is money kept for unexpected costs; a £250 repair from a £500 pot leaves £250.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	emergency	emergency	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	fund	fund	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	unexpected	unexpected	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	costs	cost	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=5:punct
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	£	£	SYM	$	_	14	compound	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
13	250	250	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	flat	_	_
14	repair	repair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	£	£	SYM	$	_	19	compound	_	_
18	500	500	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
19	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
20	leaves	leave	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
21	£	£	SYM	$	_	20	obj	_	_
22	250	250	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **is a** | present | a emergency fund | money |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **keep** | participle |  | money *not said here* |  |  |  | for unexpected costs | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **leave** | present | a £ repair from a £ pot |  |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «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:money:025-saving-for-holidays-and-big-things.lesson:6`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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