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title: A bank account is a safe place for money: the bank keeps a careful r… — A bank account and a debit card · tree and pragmatics
description: A bank account is a safe place for money: the bank keeps a careful record of how much is yours, and you can take it out or spend it when you need it. Who acts: bank account, bank, much, you. A sentence of the lesson «A bank account and a debit card» of the money course of Mova's primary school with 
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# A bank account and a debit card, sentence 0

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A bank account is a safe place for money: the bank keeps a careful record of how much is yours, and you can take it out or spend it when you need it.

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**Who acts:** bank account, bank, much, you · **What happens:** be, keep, take out, spend, need · **To what, where:** safe place, careful record, yours, record

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This is a sentence of the lesson «A bank account and a debit card» 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 (bank account, bank, much, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:money:026-a-bank-account-and-a-debit-card.lesson:0
# text = A bank account is a safe place for money: the bank keeps a careful record of how much is yours, and you can take it out or spend it when you need it.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = money
# lesson = 026-a-bank-account-and-a-debit-card.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	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	careful	careful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	record	record	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
18	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	19	advmod	_	_
19	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	nsubj	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	yours	your	PRON	PRP	Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	acl	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	out	out	ADP	RP	_	26	compound:prt	_	_
29	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	spend	spend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	conj	_	_
31	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	_
32	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	34	advmod	_	_
33	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	advcl	_	_
35	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obj	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **is a** | present | a bank account | a safe place |  |  |  | for money | tree rules |
| 2 | **keep** | present | the bank | a careful record |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent record=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | present | much | yours |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **take out** | can | you | record |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 5 | **spend** | infinitive | you *not said here* | record |  |  |  |  | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Asset |
| 6 | **need** | present | you | record |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=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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**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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