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title: Most people do a mix of spending some now and saving some for later. — Saving up for a game · tree and pragmatics
description: Most people do a mix of spending some now and saving some for later. Who acts: Most people, mix. A sentence of the lesson «Saving up for a game» of the money course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Saving up for a game, sentence 14

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Most people do a mix of spending some now and saving some for later.

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**Who acts:** Most people, mix · **What happens:** do, spend, save · **To what, where:** mix, some

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Saving up for a game» 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 (Most people, mix), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:money:008-saving-up-for-a-game.lesson:14
# text = Most people do a mix of spending some now and saving some for later.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = money
# lesson = 008-saving-up-for-a-game.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	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	2	amod	_	_
2	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	mix	mix	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
7	spending	spend	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
8	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	obj	_	_
9	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	saving	save	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	conj	_	_
12	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	11	obj	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	11	advmod	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	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 | **do** | present | Most people | a mix |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mix=Eventuality |
| 2 | **spend** | gerund | a mix *not said here* | some |  |  | now |  | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Asset |
| 3 | **save** | gerund | a mix *not said here* | some |  |  |  | late *property* | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=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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**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:008-saving-up-for-a-game.lesson:14`.

**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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