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title: A coin's value is the number on it, not its size: in the USA a dime… — Learning a skill, and coins and notes · tree and pragmatics
description: A coin's value is the number on it, not its size: in the USA a dime (10 cents) is smaller than a nickel (5 cents), and in Australia the $2 coin is smaller than the $1 coin. Who acts: value, dime, $ coin, coin. A sentence of the lesson «Learning a skill, and coins and notes» of the everyday course of
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# Learning a skill, and coins and notes, sentence 3

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A coin's value is the number on it, not its size: in the USA a dime (10 cents) is smaller than a nickel (5 cents), and in Australia the $2 coin is smaller than the $1 coin.

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**Who acts:** value, dime, $ coin, coin · **What happens:** be, value · **To what, where:** number, USA, Australia

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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 (value, dime, $ coin, coin), 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:3
# text = A coin's value is the number on it, not its size: in the USA a dime (10 cents) is smaller than a nickel (5 cents), and in Australia the $2 coin is smaller than the $1 coin.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 260-learning-skills-and-coins.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	coin	coin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	value	value	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
12	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	size	size	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	USA	USA	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	dime	dime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
20	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	22	punct	_	_
21	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	cents	cent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	appos	_	_
23	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	22	punct	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
25	smaller	small	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	13	conj	_	_
26	than	than	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	nickel	nickel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	31	punct	_	_
30	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	31	nummod	_	_
31	cents	cent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	appos	_	_
32	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	31	punct	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	Australia	Australia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
38	$	$	SYM	$	_	40	compound	_	_
39	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	38	nummod	_	_
40	coin	coin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nsubj	_	_
41	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	42	cop	_	_
42	smaller	small	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	25	conj	_	_
43	than	than	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
45	$	$	SYM	$	_	47	compound	_	_
46	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	45	nummod	_	_
47	coin	coin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	_
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **is a** | present | a coin's value | the number |  | number |  | value's size *nmod* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | a dime |  |  | the USA |  | than a nickel; small *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | the $ coin |  |  | Australia |  | than the $ coin; small *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **value** |  | a coin |  |  |  |  |  | nom value «cognition 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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**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:3`.

**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): no change. **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.

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