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title: Eggs at 25 cents each: a dozen loose cost 12 × 25 = 300 cents; a doz… — Best buys and offers · tree and pragmatics
description: Eggs at 25 cents each: a dozen loose cost 12 × 25 = 300 cents; a dozen box for $2.50 is 250 cents, so the box saves 50 cents. Who acts: dozen box, box. A sentence of the lesson «Best buys and offers» of the lessons course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# Best buys and offers, sentence 2

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Eggs at 25 cents each: a dozen loose cost 12 × 25 = 300 cents; a dozen box for $2.50 is 250 cents, so the box saves 50 cents.

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**Who acts:** dozen box, box · **What happens:** be, save · **To what, where:** 250 cents, 50 cents

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Best buys and offers» 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 (dozen box, box), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:lessons:246-best-buys-and-offers.lesson:2
# text = Eggs at 25 cents each: a dozen loose cost 12 × 25 = 300 cents; a dozen box for $2.50 is 250 cents, so the box saves 50 cents.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = lessons
# lesson = 246-best-buys-and-offers.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	Eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	25	25	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	cents	cent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
5	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	1	nmod:unmarked	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	dozen	dozen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
9	loose	loose	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
10	cost	cost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
11	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	flat	_	_
12	×	×	SYM	SYM	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
13	25	25	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	flat	_	_
14	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	15	case	_	_
15	300	300	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:nmod
16	cents	cent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	dozen	dozen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	$	$	SYM	$	_	20	nmod	_	_
23	2.50	2.50	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
25	250	250	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
26	cents	cent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	so	so	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
31	saves	save	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
32	50	50	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	33	nummod	_	_
33	cents	cent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obj	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
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## 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 a** | present | a dozen box | 250 cents |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **save** | present | the box | 50 cents |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cent=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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**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:246-best-buys-and-offers.lesson:2`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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