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title: 3 cookies at 25 cents cost 75 cents; paying with 1 dollar (100 cents… — The change from a payment · tree and pragmatics
description: 3 cookies at 25 cents cost 75 cents; paying with 1 dollar (100 cents) gives 100 − 75 = 25 cents of change. Who acts: 25 cents. A sentence of the lesson «The change from a payment» of the lessons course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The change from a payment, sentence 2

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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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**Who acts:** 25 cents · **What happens:** cost, pay, give · **To what, where:** 75 cents, 1 dollar

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The change from a payment» 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 (25 cents), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:lessons:093-change.lesson:2
# text = 3 cookies at 25 cents cost 75 cents; paying with 1 dollar (100 cents) gives 100 − 75 = 25 cents of change.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = lessons
# lesson = 093-change.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	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	cookies	cookie	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	25	25	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	cents	cent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	cost	cost	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
7	75	75	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	cents	cent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	paying	pay	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
11	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
12	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	dollar	dollar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:nsubj
14	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	16	punct	_	_
15	100	100	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	cents	cent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	appos	_	_
17	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	16	punct	_	_
18	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
19	100	100	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	−	−	SYM	SYM	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	75	75	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	flat	_	_
22	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	24	punct	_	_
23	25	25	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	cents	cent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	change	change	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **cost** | present | 25 cents *not said here* | 75 cents |  |  |  |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme cent=Value |
| 2 | **pay** | gerund | 25 cents *not said here* | 1 dollar |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **give** | present | 25 cents *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent −=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:093-change.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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