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title: Paying 1 dollar for 2 apples at 45 cents each: the apples cost 90 ce… — Paying with US coins · tree and pragmatics
description: Paying 1 dollar for 2 apples at 45 cents each: the apples cost 90 cents, and 100 - 90 = 10 cents come back. Who acts: apples. 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 2

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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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**Who acts:** apples · **What happens:** pay, cost, come back · **To what, where:** 1 dollar, 45 cents, 90 cents

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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 (apples), 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:2
# text = Paying 1 dollar for 2 apples at 45 cents each: the apples cost 90 cents, and 100 - 90 = 10 cents come back.
# 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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Paying	pay	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	dollar	dollar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	apples	apple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	45	45	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	cents	cent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
10	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:det
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	apples	apple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	cost	cost	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
15	90	90	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	cents	cent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
19	100	100	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
20	-	-	SYM	SYM	ExtPos=ADP	21	case	_	_
21	90	90	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	nmod	_	_
22	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	25	nsubj	_	_
23	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	cents	cent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
25	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
26	back	back	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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** | gerund |  | 1 dollar |  | 45 cents  each |  | for 2 apples | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent dollar=Asset for apple=Theme |
| 2 | **cost** | present | the apples | 90 cents |  |  |  |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme cent=Value |
| 3 | **come back** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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/).

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