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title: Earn, save, spend wisely, give when you can, ask "says who?" before… — Gambling and honesty with change · tree and pragmatics
description: Earn, save, spend wisely, give when you can, ask "says who?" before you believe a promise, and remember that money matters but never measures how good a person is. Who acts: you, money, person. A sentence of the lesson «Gambling and honesty with change» of the money course of Mova's primary school w
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# Gambling and honesty with change, sentence 4

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Earn, save, spend wisely, give when you can, ask "says who?" before you believe a promise, and remember that money matters but never measures how good a person is.

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**Who acts:** you, money, person · **What happens:** earn, save, spend, give, ask, say · **To what, where:** promise · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Gambling and honesty with change» 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 (you, money, person), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:money:040-gambling-and-honesty-with-change.lesson:4
# text = Earn, save, spend wisely, give when you can, ask "says who?" before you believe a promise, and remember that money matters but never measures how good a person is.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = money
# lesson = 040-gambling-and-honesty-with-change.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×4, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Earn	earn	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:conj
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct
3	save	save	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	spend	spend	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
6	wisely	wisely	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	give	give	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	ask	ask	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
15	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:parataxis
16	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	ccomp	_	_
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct
19	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	believe	believe	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:advcl
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	promise	promise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	remember	remember	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
27	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
28	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
29	matters	matter	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	ccomp	_	_
30	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=29:cc
31	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	32	advmod	_	_
32	measures	measure	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	conj	_	_
33	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	34	advmod	_	_
34	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	ccomp	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
37	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3: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 | **earn** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **save** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **spend** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | wisely *property* | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **give** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **believe** | present | you | a promise |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer promise=Stimulus |
| 8 | **remember** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 9 | **matter** | present | money |  |  |  |  |  | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
| 10 | **not** **measure** | present | money *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |
| 11 | **is** | present | a person |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |

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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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×4, 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.

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