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title: "A rainy day" means a time of trouble, so a rainy day fund is money… — Saving for holidays and big things · tree and pragmatics
description: "A rainy day" means a time of trouble, so a rainy day fund is money saved for bad surprises. Who acts: rainy day, rainy day fund. 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 7

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"A rainy day" means a time of trouble, so a rainy day fund is money saved for bad surprises.

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**Who acts:** rainy day, rainy day fund · **What happens:** mean, be, save · **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 (rainy day, rainy day fund), 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:7
# text = "A rainy day" means a time of trouble, so a rainy day fund is money saved for bad surprises.
# 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	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
2	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	rainy	rainy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
6	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	rainy	rainy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	fund	fund	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	_
19	saved	save	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	surprises	surprise	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=narrator

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | a rainy day |  |  |  | time |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present | a rainy day fund | money |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **save** | participle |  | money *not said here* |  |  |  | for bad surprises | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent for surprise=Source |

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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:7`.

**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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