---
title: US coins: a penny is 1 cent, a nickel 5 cents, a dime 10 cents and a… — Learning a skill, and coins and notes · tree and pragmatics
description: US coins: a penny is 1 cent, a nickel 5 cents, a dime 10 cents and a quarter 25 cents; UK coins go from 1p to £2. Who acts: penny, UK coins. A sentence of the lesson «Learning a skill, and coins and notes» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/260-learning-skills-and-coins/13/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Learning a skill, and coins and notes](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/260-learning-skills-and-coins/) / 13

# Learning a skill, and coins and notes, sentence 13

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
US coins: a penny is 1 cent, a nickel 5 cents, a dime 10 cents and a quarter 25 cents; UK coins go from 1p to £2.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** penny, UK coins · **What happens:** be, go · **To what, where:** 1 cent, 1 p

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of the lesson «Learning a skill, and coins and notes» of the everyday 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 (penny, UK coins), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:260-learning-skills-and-coins.lesson:13
# text = US coins: a penny is 1 cent, a nickel 5 cents, a dime 10 cents and a quarter 25 cents; UK coins go from 1p to £2.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 260-learning-skills-and-coins.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 ×3
1	US	US	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	coins	coin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	penny	penny	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	cent	cent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:det
11	nickel	nickel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
12	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	flat	_	_
13	cents	cent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:det
16	dime	dime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
17	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	cents	cent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	appos	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:det
21	quarter	quarter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
22	25	25	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	flat	_	_
23	cents	cent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
25	UK	UK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	coins	coin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
27	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
28	from	from	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
30	p	p	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	£	£	SYM	$	_	27	obl	_	_
33	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	32	nummod	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- sa -->
- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | a penny | 1 cent and nickel cents |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** | present | UK coins |  |  | 1 p |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from p=Initial\_Location to £=Destination |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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:everyday:260-learning-skills-and-coins.lesson:13`.

**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 ×3. **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/).

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Learning a skill, and coins and notes, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/260-learning-skills-and-coins/12/)
- next →: [Learning a skill, and coins and notes, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/260-learning-skills-and-coins/14/)
- ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/260-learning-skills-and-coins/)