--- title: The piggy bank and a jar for each goal — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «The piggy bank and a jar for each goal», a lesson of the money course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: A piggy bank that is hard to open helps you save, because getting money out takes effort, so you do not spend it on a whim. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/9-the-piggy-bank-and-a-jar-for-each-goal/) [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/) / The piggy bank and a jar for each goal # The piggy bank and a jar for each goal Lesson 9 of the money course of Mova's primary school: 14 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/9-the-piggy-bank-and-a-jar-for-each-goal/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/9-the-piggy-bank-and-a-jar-for-each-goal/0/) — A piggy bank that is hard to open helps you save, because getting money out takes effort, so you do not spend it on a whim. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/9-the-piggy-bank-and-a-jar-for-each-goal/1/) — Ella uses three jars, SPEND, SAVE and GIVE, and splits her £6 into £2 for each: one jar for now, one for later, one to share; sharing money out like this is called allocating. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/9-the-piggy-bank-and-a-jar-for-each-goal/2/) — A separate jar for each goal stops one goal eating another: Zara puts £5 a week in her bike jar and £2 in her jar for Mum's present, so she can see both goals growing. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/9-the-piggy-bank-and-a-jar-for-each-goal/3/) — "Pay yourself first" means you put your savings aside before you spend anything, so you cannot spend them by mistake, and a safe place keeps them from little brothers. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/9-the-piggy-bank-and-a-jar-for-each-goal/5/) — A piggy bank that is hard to open makes it harder to spend savings on a whim. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/9-the-piggy-bank-and-a-jar-for-each-goal/6/) — Many families use three jars: spend (for now), save (for later) and give (to share). - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/9-the-piggy-bank-and-a-jar-for-each-goal/8/) — A separate jar for each goal lets you see each goal clearly and stops one goal using up another. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/9-the-piggy-bank-and-a-jar-for-each-goal/9/) — Moving money out of savings is allowed, but it takes you further from your goal, so stop and think first. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/9-the-piggy-bank-and-a-jar-for-each-goal/10/) — A charity is a group that helps people or animals; to donate is to give money to help. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/9-the-piggy-bank-and-a-jar-for-each-goal/11/) — Long-term saving is for things far away in time; short-term saving is for things soon. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/9-the-piggy-bank-and-a-jar-for-each-goal/12/) — Seeing your coins pile up in a see-through jar helps keep you going; this push to keep going is called motivation. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/9-the-piggy-bank-and-a-jar-for-each-goal/13/) — Money boxes with counters can be wrong, so count yourself now and then. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/9-the-piggy-bank-and-a-jar-for-each-goal/14/) — "Pay yourself first" means putting money into savings before spending any. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/9-the-piggy-bank-and-a-jar-for-each-goal/15/) — Money needs a safe place, such as a locked box or a bank, so it is not lost or taken. - ← previous: [Saving up for a game](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/8-saving-up-for-a-game/) - next →: [Regret, silly buys and peer pressure](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/10-regret-silly-buys-and-peer-pressure/) - ↑ back to [Money](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/)