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title: In the USA a penny is 1 cent, a nickel 5 cents, a dime 10 cents and… — Coins, pocket money, saving, spending wisely and… · tree and pragmatics
description: In the USA a penny is 1 cent, a nickel 5 cents, a dime 10 cents and a quarter 25 cents. Who acts: penny. A sentence of the lesson «Coins, pocket money, saving, spending wisely and planning time» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# Coins, pocket money, saving, spending wisely and planning time, sentence 4

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In the USA a penny is 1 cent, a nickel 5 cents, a dime 10 cents and a quarter 25 cents.

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**Who acts:** penny · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** 1 cent, USA

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Coins, pocket money, saving, spending wisely and planning time» 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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:308-coins-pocket-money-saving-and-planning-time.lesson:4
# text = In the USA a penny is 1 cent, a nickel 5 cents, a dime 10 cents and a quarter 25 cents.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 308-coins-pocket-money-saving-and-planning-time.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	USA	USA	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
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	0	root	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=8:punct
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	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	13	conj	_	_
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	13	conj	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | a penny | 1 cent and nickel cents and dime 10 cents and quarter cents |  | the USA |  |  | tree rules |

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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:308-coins-pocket-money-saving-and-planning-time.lesson:4`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2. **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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