--- title: "Pay yourself first" means you put your savings aside before you spe… — The piggy bank and a jar for each goal · tree and pragmatics description: "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. Who acts: you, safe place, your. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, safe place, your), 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:3 # text = "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. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 Pay pay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 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 _ _ 6 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 put put VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 ccomp _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:ccomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 9 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 savings savings NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 8 obj _ _ 11 aside aside ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 12 before before SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 13 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 spend spend VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 advcl _ _ 15 anything anything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 14 obj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 17 so so ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 18 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 19 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 20 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 21 advmod _ _ 21 spend spend VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 22 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ _ 23 by by ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 mistake mistake NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 safe safe ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 30 keeps keep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 31 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 obj _ _ 32 from from ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 brothers brother NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obl _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed form=decl, act=assert | # | 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** | present | you | your savings | | | | aside *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent savings=Goal | | 4 | **spend** | present | you | anything | | | | | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Asset | | 5 | **not** **spend** | can | you | savings | | | | by mistake | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Asset | | 6 | **keep** | present | a safe place | savings | | | | from little brothers | vn forbid-64.4 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer they=Beneficiary from brother=Eventuality | | 7 | **save** | | your | | | | | | nom savings «possession transitive»: poss=agent | 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. 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