--- title: "Pay yourself first" means putting money into savings before spendin… — The piggy bank and a jar for each goal · tree and pragmatics description: "Pay yourself first" means putting money into savings before spending any. 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. --- [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/14/) [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/) / 14 # The piggy bank and a jar for each goal, sentence 14 "Pay yourself first" means putting money into savings before spending any. **What happens:** pay, mean, put, spend · **To what, where:** yourself, money, savings, any · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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: 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:14 # text = "Pay yourself first" means putting money into savings before spending any. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 Pay pay VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 6 nsubj _ _ 3 yourself yourself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 2 obj _ _ 4 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 2 advmod _ _ 5 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct 6 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 putting put VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 xcomp _ _ 8 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 9 into into ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 savings savings NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 7 obl _ _ 11 before before SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 12 spending spend VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 advcl _ _ 13 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 12 obj _ _ 14 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed form=decl, act=assert, voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pay** *in a quote* | infinitive | | yourself | | | | first *property* | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Asset | | 2 | **mean** | present | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **put** *not said to happen* | gerund | | money | | savings | | | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent money=Goal | | 4 | **spend** | gerund | | any | | | | | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent any=Asset | 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:14`. **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): R6-punct-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/). - ← previous: [The piggy bank and a jar for each goal, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/9-the-piggy-bank-and-a-jar-for-each-goal/13/) - next →: [The piggy bank and a jar for each goal, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/9-the-piggy-bank-and-a-jar-for-each-goal/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/9-the-piggy-bank-and-a-jar-for-each-goal/)