--- title: When things cost the same each, first find the price of one: divide… — The price of one, then the price of many · tree and pragmatics description: When things cost the same each, first find the price of one: divide the total price by how many were bought. Who acts: things, you. 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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 (things, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:lessons:111-unit-price.lesson:0 # text = When things cost the same each, first find the price of one: divide the total price by how many were bought. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = lessons # lesson = 111-unit-price.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 When when SCONJ WRB _ 3 mark _ _ 2 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 cost cost VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:advcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 obj _ _ 6 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 5 appos _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 8 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 9 advmod _ _ 9 find find VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 price price NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 11 nmod _ _ 14 : : PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 15 divide divide VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 total total ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 price price NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 19 by by SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 20 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 21 advmod _ _ 21 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 nsubj _ _ 22 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux:pass _ _ 23 bought buy VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 15 advcl _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cost** | present | things | the same | | | | | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme same=Value | | 2 | **find** | imperative | you *not said here* | the price of one | | | | first *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent price=Topic | | 3 | **divide** | infinitive | | the total price | | | | | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent price=Theme | | 4 | **buy** | past · passive | | many | | | | | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | 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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:lessons:111-unit-price.lesson:0`. **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): R8-pos-agree ×1. **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/). - ← previous: [Review: fractions and shapes together, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/110-fractions-and-shapes-review/2/) - next →: [The price of one, then the price of many, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/111-unit-price/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/111-unit-price/)