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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; 100 cents make one dollar. Who acts: penny, nickel cents. 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 depende
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# Coins, pocket money, saving, spending wisely and planning time, sentence 9

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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; 100 cents make one dollar.

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**Who acts:** penny, nickel cents · **What happens:** be, make · **To what, where:** 1 cent, USA, one dollar

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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, nickel cents), 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:9
# text = In the USA a penny is 1 cent, a nickel 5 cents, a dime 10 cents and a quarter 25 cents; 100 cents make one dollar.
# 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): R5-strong ×3
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	27	parataxis	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	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	27	nsubj	_	_
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	:	_	26	punct	_	_
25	100	100	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
26	cents	cent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:conj
27	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
28	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	nummod	_	_
29	dollar	dollar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	27	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 |  | the USA |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | present | nickel cents and dime 10 cents and quarter cents | one dollar |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset dollar=Product |

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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:9`.

**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/).

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