--- title: Spending on something else on the way sets your goal back, and waiti… — Saving up for a game · tree and pragmatics description: 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. Who acts: Spending, prices, newer version, you. A sentence of the lesson «Saving up for a game» of the money cours --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/8-saving-up-for-a-game/3/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Money](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/) / [Saving up for a game](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/8-saving-up-for-a-game/) / 3 # Saving up for a game, sentence 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. **Who acts:** Spending, prices, newer version, you, game · **What happens:** spend, set back, wait, help, drop, come out · **To what, where:** something, goal, game 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 (Spending, prices, newer version, you), 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:3 # text = 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. # 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): R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Spending spend VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 csubj _ _ 2 on on ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 1 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:obj 4 else else ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 on on ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:obl 8 sets set VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 goal goal NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 back back ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:advmod 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 waiting wait VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 conj _ _ 15 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 advcl _ _ 17 : : PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 18 prices price NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 19 often often ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 drop drop VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj 21 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 25 advmod _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 newer new ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 24 amod _ _ 24 version version NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 25 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 advcl _ _ 26 out out ADP RP _ 25 compound:prt _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 game game NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 31 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 waited wait VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 acl:relcl _ _ 33 for for ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 34 usually usually ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 35 feels feel VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:conj 36 extra extra ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 37 special special ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 xcomp _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **spend** | gerund | | | | | | on something *goal*; on the way | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent on something=Goal | | 2 | **set back** | present | Spending | your goal | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient goal=Result | | 3 | **wait** | gerund | Spending *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **help** | can | Spending *not said here* | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **drop** | present | prices | | | | | often *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **come out** | present | a newer version | | | | | | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | | 7 | **wait** | past | you | a game *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **feel** | present | a game | | | | | special, usually *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | 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. **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:3`. **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): R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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/). - ← previous: [Saving up for a game, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/8-saving-up-for-a-game/1/) - next →: [Saving up for a game, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/8-saving-up-for-a-game/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/8-saving-up-for-a-game/)