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title: A price like $4.50 means 4 dollars and 50 cents, which is 450 cents. — Australian, New Zealand and Irish money · tree and pragmatics
description: A price like $4.50 means 4 dollars and 50 cents, which is 450 cents. Who acts: price, 4 dollars. A sentence of the lesson «Australian, New Zealand and Irish money» of the lessons course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Australian, New Zealand and Irish money, sentence 1

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A price like $4.50 means 4 dollars and 50 cents, which is 450 cents.

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**Who acts:** price, 4 dollars · **What happens:** mean, be · **To what, where:** 4 dollars, 450 cents

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Australian, New Zealand and Irish money» 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 (price, 4 dollars), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:lessons:244-australian-new-zealand-and-irish-money.lesson:1
# text = A price like $4.50 means 4 dollars and 50 cents, which is 450 cents.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = lessons
# lesson = 244-australian-new-zealand-and-irish-money.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): no change
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	price	price	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	like	like	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	$	$	SYM	$	_	2	nmod	_	_
5	4.50	4.50	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
6	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	dollars	dollar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	50	50	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	cents	cent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	450	450	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	cents	cent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	acl:relcl	_	_
17	.	.	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 | **mean** | present | a price | 4 dollars and 50 cents |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dollar=Topic |
| 2 | **is a** | present | 4 dollars and 50 cents | 450 cents |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:244-australian-new-zealand-and-irish-money.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): no change. **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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