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title: A saving goal (or target) is the thing or amount you are saving for. — Saving up for a game · tree and pragmatics
description: A saving goal (or target) is the thing or amount you are saving for. Who acts: saving goal, you. 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 5

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A saving goal (or target) is the thing or amount you are saving for.

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**Who acts:** saving goal, you · **What happens:** be, save · **To what, where:** thing

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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 (saving goal, 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:5
# text = A saving goal (or target) is the thing or amount you are saving for.
# 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, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	saving	saving	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	goal	goal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
4	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	6	punct	_	_
5	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	target	target	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:appos
7	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	6	punct	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	amount	amount	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	saving	save	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:acl:relcl
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	obl	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **is a** | present | a saving goal or target | the thing or amount |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **save** | present · progressive | you | the thing or amount *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=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:5`.

**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, 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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