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title: Paying with US coins — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics
description: «Paying with US coins», a lesson of the lessons course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: In the United States a dollar is worth 100 cents, and a quarter is worth 25 cents, so 4 quarters make a dollar.
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# Paying with US coins

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Lesson 241 of the lessons course of Mova's primary school: 3 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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- [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/241-paying-with-us-coins/0/) — In the United States a dollar is worth 100 cents, and a quarter is worth 25 cents, so 4 quarters make a dollar.
- [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/241-paying-with-us-coins/1/) — To find the change in cents, turn the money paid into cents, find the cost of all the things in cents, and take the cost away.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/241-paying-with-us-coins/2/) — Paying 1 dollar for 2 apples at 45 cents each: the apples cost 90 cents, and 100 - 90 = 10 cents come back.

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