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title: If you paid with more money than the things cost, the change came ba… — The price of one thing from the money paid and t… · tree and pragmatics
description: If you paid with more money than the things cost, the change came back: what the things cost is the money given minus the change. Who acts: you, change, things. A sentence of the lesson «The price of one thing from the money paid and the change» of the lessons course of Mova's primary school with it
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# The price of one thing from the money paid and the change, sentence 1

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If you paid with more money than the things cost, the change came back: what the things cost is the money given minus the change.

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**Who acts:** you, change, things · **What happens:** pay, come back, cost, be, give · **To what, where:** money

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The price of one thing from the money paid and the change» of the lessons 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 (you, change, things), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:lessons:144-price-from-change.lesson:1
# text = If you paid with more money than the things cost, the change came back: what the things cost is the money given minus the change.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = lessons
# lesson = 144-price-from-change.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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	paid	pay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	amod	_	_
6	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	than	than	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	compound	_	_
10	cost	cost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	change	change	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	back	back	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
17	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	20	obj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
20	cost	cost	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	csubj	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	parataxis	_	_
24	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	acl	_	_
25	minus	minus	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	change	change	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3: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 | **pay** | past | you |  |  |  |  | with more money; than the things cost | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **come back** | past | the change |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **cost** | present | things | the money |  |  |  |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme what=Value |
| 4 | **is a** | present |  | the money |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **give** | participle |  | the money *not said here* |  |  |  | minus the change | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

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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:lessons:144-price-from-change.lesson:1`.

**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): R6-punct-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/).

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