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title: Saving up for a game — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics
description: «Saving up for a game», a lesson of the money course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Saving means putting money aside, week after week, until you have enough for something bigger than one week's money can buy.
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# Saving up for a game

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Lesson 8 of the money course of Mova's primary school: 12 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/money/8-saving-up-for-a-game/).

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- [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/8-saving-up-for-a-game/0/) — Saving means putting money aside, week after week, until you have enough for something bigger than one week's money can buy.
- [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/8-saving-up-for-a-game/1/) — Sam wants a £24 game and gets £3 a week: £24 ÷ £3 = 8 weeks, and knowing the number makes the wait feel shorter.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/8-saving-up-for-a-game/3/) — Spending on something else on the way sets your goal back, and waiting can help: prices often drop when a newer version comes out, and a game you waited for usually feels extra special.
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/8-saving-up-for-a-game/4/) — Saving means keeping money aside for later instead of spending it now.
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/8-saving-up-for-a-game/5/) — A saving goal (or target) is the thing or amount you are saving for.
- [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/8-saving-up-for-a-game/7/) — Borrowing means taking money you must pay back; money you owe is called a debt.
- [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/8-saving-up-for-a-game/9/) — Some parents or employers add money to what you save; this is called matching, like a reward for saving.
- [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/8-saving-up-for-a-game/10/) — A chart, jar or app that shows your progress helps you keep going.
- [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/8-saving-up-for-a-game/11/) — Prices often drop when a newer version comes out, so waiting can save money.
- [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/8-saving-up-for-a-game/12/) — Waiting for something better later is called delayed gratification.
- [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/8-saving-up-for-a-game/13/) — Counting your savings: group the coins, multiply, then add the groups.
- [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/8-saving-up-for-a-game/14/) — Most people do a mix of spending some now and saving some for later.

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