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title: In Britain a pound is worth 100 pence, written 100p, and a five-poun… — British coins and notes · tree and pragmatics
description: In Britain a pound is worth 100 pence, written 100p, and a five-pound note is often called a fiver. Who acts: pound. A sentence of the lesson «British coins and notes» of the lessons course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# British coins and notes, sentence 0

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In Britain a pound is worth 100 pence, written 100p, and a five-pound note is often called a fiver.

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**Who acts:** pound · **What happens:** be, write, call · **To what, where:** Britain, 100 p, pound note · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:lessons:243-british-coins-and-notes.lesson:0
# text = In Britain a pound is worth 100 pence, written 100p, and a five-pound note is often called a fiver.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = lessons
# lesson = 243-british-coins-and-notes.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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Britain	Britain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	pound	pound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	worth	worth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	100	100	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	pence	pence	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
11	100	100	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	p	p	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
16	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	_
18	pound	pound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	note	note	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
21	often	often	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	fiver	fiver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	xcomp	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | a pound |  |  | Britain |  | worth *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **write** | participle |  | 100 p |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent p=Theme |
| 3 | **call** | present · passive |  | a pound note |  |  |  | often *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |

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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:243-british-coins-and-notes.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): R7-rel-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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