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title: A charity is a group that helps people or animals; to donate is to g… — The piggy bank and a jar for each goal · tree and pragmatics
description: A charity is a group that helps people or animals; to donate is to give money to help. Who acts: charity, group. 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 the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The piggy bank and a jar for each goal, sentence 10

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A charity is a group that helps people or animals; to donate is to give money to help.

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**Who acts:** charity, group · **What happens:** be, help, donate · **To what, where:** group, people

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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 (charity, group), 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:10
# text = A charity is a group that helps people or animals; to donate is to give money to help.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	charity	charity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	group	group	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=8:cc
10	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	donate	donate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	csubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
17	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 charity | a group |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **help** | present | a group |  | people or animals |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **donate** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | present | a charity *not said here* |  |  |  |  | give *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **help** | to-infinitive | a charity *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |

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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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**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): R1-cc-next ×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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