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title: To count coins, find the value of each kind and add them: 2 quarters… — Counting coins · tree and pragmatics
description: To count coins, find the value of each kind and add them: 2 quarters, 3 dimes, 2 nickels and 4 pennies Who acts: you. A sentence of the lesson «Counting coins» of the lessons course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Counting coins, sentence 1

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To count coins, find the value of each kind and add them: 2 quarters, 3 dimes, 2 nickels and 4 pennies

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** count, find, add, value · **To what, where:** coins, value, kind

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Counting 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 (you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:lessons:091-counting-coins.lesson:1
# text = To count coins, find the value of each kind and add them: 2 quarters, 3 dimes, 2 nickels and 4 pennies
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = lessons
# lesson = 091-counting-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 ×3
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	count	count	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root
3	coins	coin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	find	find	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	value	value	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	add	add	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
15	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	quarters	quarter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	appos	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	dimes	dime	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	nickels	nickel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	pennies	penny	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
```

## 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 | **count** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | coins |  |  |  |  | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coin=Theme |
| 2 | **find** | imperative | you *not said here* | the value of each kind |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent value=Topic |
| 3 | **add** *speech: assert* | infinitive | you *not said here* | coins *= coin* |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 4 | **value** |  |  | each kind |  |  |  |  | nom value «cognition 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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**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:091-counting-coins.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): R5-strong ×3. **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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