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title: The change from a payment — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics
description: «The change from a payment», a lesson of the lessons course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: A dollar is 100 cents.
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# The change from a payment

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Lesson 93 of the lessons course of Mova's primary school: 3 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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- [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/93-change/0/) — A dollar is 100 cents.
- [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/93-change/1/) — The change is what you paid minus what the things cost.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/93-change/2/) — 3 cookies at 25 cents cost 75 cents; paying with 1 dollar (100 cents) gives 100 − 75 = 25 cents of change.

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