--- title: At the till you pay, and if you gave more than the price, you get ch… — Prices and change at the till · tree and pragmatics description: At the till you pay, and if you gave more than the price, you get change back; doing the sum yourself means you always pay the right amount. Who acts: you, doing. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, doing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:money:011-prices-and-change-at-the-till.lesson:0 # text = At the till you pay, and if you gave more than the price, you get change back; doing the sum yourself means you always pay the right amount. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = money # lesson = 011-prices-and-change-at-the-till.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, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 At at ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 till till NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 4 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 pay pay VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 8 if if SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 9 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 11 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 10 obj _ _ 12 than than ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 price price NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 16 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 get get VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 ccomp _ _ 18 change change NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:xcomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 19 back back ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:advmod 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 doing do VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 25 csubj _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 sum sum NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 yourself yourself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 21 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:advmod 25 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 26 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 27 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 28 advmod _ _ 28 pay pay VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 ccomp _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 amount amount NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pay** | present | you | | | the till | | | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **give** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | you | more | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **get back** | present | you | change | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer change=Stimulus | | 4 | **do** | gerund | | the sum | | | | yourself *obl* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sum=Eventuality | | 5 | **mean** | present | doing | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **pay** | present | you | the right amount | | | | always *property* | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent amount=Asset | 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. **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:money:011-prices-and-change-at-the-till.lesson:0`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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/). - ← previous: [Regret, silly buys and peer pressure, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/10-regret-silly-buys-and-peer-pressure/15/) - next →: [Prices and change at the till, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/11-prices-and-change-at-the-till/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/11-prices-and-change-at-the-till/)