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title: Saving means keeping money aside for later instead of spending it now. — Saving up for a game · tree and pragmatics
description: Saving means keeping money aside for later instead of spending it now. 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 4

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Saving means keeping money aside for later instead of spending it now.

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**What happens:** save, mean, keep, spend · **To what, where:** money

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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: 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:4
# text = Saving means keeping money aside for later instead of spending it now.
# 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 ×1
1	Saving	save	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	nsubj	_	_
2	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	keeping	keep	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	xcomp	_	_
4	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	aside	aside	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	3	obl	_	_
8	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=SCONJ	10	mark	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	fixed	_	_
10	spending	spend	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:advcl
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	_
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **save** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **mean** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **keep** *not said to happen* | gerund |  | money |  |  |  | aside *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme |
| 4 | **spend** | gerund |  | money |  |  | now |  | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Asset |

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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:4`.

**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 ×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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