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title: Seeing your coins pile up in a see-through jar helps keep you going;… — The piggy bank and a jar for each goal · tree and pragmatics
description: Seeing your coins pile up in a see-through jar helps keep you going; this push to keep going is called motivation. Who acts: coins, Seeing, you, push. 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 pragm
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# The piggy bank and a jar for each goal, sentence 12

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Seeing your coins pile up in a see-through jar helps keep you going; this push to keep going is called motivation.

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**Who acts:** coins, Seeing, you, push, your · **What happens:** see, pile up, help, keep, go, call · **To what, where:** see jar, you, push · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (coins, Seeing, you, push), 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:12
# text = Seeing your coins pile up in a see-through jar helps keep you going; this push to keep going is called motivation.
# 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 ×4, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Seeing	see	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	csubj	_	_
2	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	coins	coin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	pile	pile	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	ccomp	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:obl
8	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	compound	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:acl:relcl
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	_
10	through	thorough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	ccomp	_	_
11	jar	jar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:compound
12	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:nsubj
15	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	xcomp	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	det	_	_
18	push	push	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	acl	_	_
21	going	go	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	xcomp	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:conj
24	motivation	motivation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	xcomp	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	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 | **see** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **pile up** | present | your coins | a see jar |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **see** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **help** | present | Seeing |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 5 | **keep** | infinitive | Seeing *not said here* | you |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **go** | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **keep** | to-infinitive |  | this push *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **go** | gerund | this push *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 9 | **call** | present · passive |  | this push |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 10 | **coin** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom coin «possession transitive»: poss=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): R5-strong ×4, 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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