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title: To find the change in cents, turn the money paid into cents, find th… — Paying with US coins · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. Who acts: change. A sentence of the lesson «Paying with US coins» of the lessons course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Paying with US coins, sentence 1

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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.

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**Who acts:** change · **What happens:** find, turn, pay, take away, cost · **To what, where:** change, cents, money, cost, things

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Paying with US coins» 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 (change), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:lessons:241-paying-with-us-coins.lesson:1
# text = 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.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = lessons
# lesson = 241-paying-with-us-coins.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 ×1
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	find	find	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	change	change	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	cents	cent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	paid	pay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
12	into	into	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	cents	cent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	cost	cost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	21	det:predet	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	cents	cent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	cost	cost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	away	away	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **find** | to-infinitive |  | the change |  | cents |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent change=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 2 | **turn** | infinitive | the change *not said here* | the money |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent money=Theme |
| 3 | **pay** | participle |  | the money *not said here* |  | cents |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **find** | infinitive | the change *not said here* | the cost of all things in cents |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cost=Topic |
| 5 | **take away** | infinitive |  | the cost |  |  |  | away *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cost=Theme |
| 6 | **cost** |  |  | all things in cents |  |  |  |  | nom cost «possession transitive»: of=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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**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 ×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.

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