--- title: A piggy bank that is hard to open helps you save, because getting mo… — The piggy bank and a jar for each goal · tree and pragmatics description: 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. Who acts: piggy bank, you, getting. A sentence of the lesson «The piggy bank and a jar for each goal» of the money course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and --- [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/0/) [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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/9-the-piggy-bank-and-a-jar-for-each-goal/) / 0 # The piggy bank and a jar for each goal, sentence 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. **Who acts:** piggy bank, you, getting · **What happens:** be, open, help, save, get out, take · **To what, where:** money, effort, whim This is a sentence of the lesson «The piggy bank and a jar for each goal» 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 (piggy bank, you, getting), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:money:009-the-piggy-bank-and-a-jar-for-each-goal.lesson:0 # text = 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. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = money # lesson = 009-the-piggy-bank-and-a-jar-for-each-goal.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 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 piggy piggy NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 bank bank NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 4 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 6 nsubj _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 6 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 acl:relcl _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 open open VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 xcomp _ _ 9 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 save save VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 xcomp _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 13 because because SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 14 getting get VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 17 csubj _ _ 15 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 16 out out ADP RP _ 14 compound:prt _ _ 17 takes take VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 advcl _ _ 18 effort effort NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 20 so so ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 21 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 22 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 23 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 24 advmod _ _ 24 spend spend VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 parataxis _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:conj 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 on on ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 whim whim NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | a piggy bank | | | | | hard *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **open** | to-infinitive | a piggy bank *not said here* | | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **help** | present | a piggy bank | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 4 | **save** | infinitive | you | | | | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **get out** | gerund | | money | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **take** | present | getting | effort | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effort=Theme | | 7 | **not** **spend** | present · do-support | you | effort | | | | on a whim *goal* | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent it=Asset on whim=Goal | 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:009-the-piggy-bank-and-a-jar-for-each-goal.lesson:0`. **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/). - ← previous: [Saving up for a game, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/8-saving-up-for-a-game/14/) - next →: [The piggy bank and a jar for each goal, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/9-the-piggy-bank-and-a-jar-for-each-goal/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/9-the-piggy-bank-and-a-jar-for-each-goal/)