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title: Saving a little every week adds up: £10 a week for 52 weeks is £520. — Saving for holidays and big things · tree and pragmatics
description: Saving a little every week adds up: £10 a week for 52 weeks is £520. Who acts: Saving. 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 9

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Saving a little every week adds up: £10 a week for 52 weeks is £520.

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**Who acts:** Saving · **What happens:** save, add up · **To what, where:** little · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Saving), 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:9
# text = Saving a little every week adds up: £10 a week for 52 weeks is £520.
# 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	VerbForm=Ger	6	csubj	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	obj	_	_
4	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
5	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl:unmarked	_	_
6	adds	add	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	up	up	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
9	£	£	SYM	$	_	17	nsubj	_	_
10	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:obl:unmarked
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	52	52	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	£	£	SYM	$	_	6	parataxis	_	_
18	520	520	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **save** | gerund |  | a little |  |  | week |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent little=Theme |
| 2 | **add up** *speech: assert* | present | Saving |  |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |

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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:9`.

**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/).

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