--- title: The fastest way to check change is to count up from the price: Jake… — Prices and change at the till · tree and pragmatics description: The fastest way to check change is to count up from the price: Jake pays £10 for a £3.50 toy, so £3.50 + 50p = £4, + £1 = £5, + £5 = £10, and his change is 50p + £1 + £5 = £6.50. Who acts: fastest way, Jake, change, p. 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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 (fastest way, Jake, change, p), 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:1 # text = The fastest way to check change is to count up from the price: Jake pays £10 for a £3.50 toy, so £3.50 + 50p = £4, + £1 = £5, + £5 = £10, and his change is 50p + £1 + £5 = £6.50. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×4 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 fastest fast ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 3 amod _ _ 3 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 check check VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 acl _ _ 6 change change NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 count count VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 up up ADP RP _ 9 compound:prt _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 11 from from ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 price price NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 14 : : PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 15 Jake jake PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 pays pay VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 parataxis _ _ 17 £ £ SYM $ _ 16 obj _ _ 18 10 10 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 17 nummod _ _ 19 for for ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 21 £ £ ADJ GW Degree=Pos|Typo=Yes 23 amod _ _ 22 3.50 3.50 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Frac 21 flat _ _ 23 toy toy NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 so so ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 £ £ SYM $ _ 9 obl _ _ 27 3.50 3.50 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Frac 26 nummod _ _ 28 + + SYM SYM _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 50 50 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 30 nummod _ _ 30 p p NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 31 = = SYM SYM _ 32 case _ _ 32 £ £ SYM $ _ 26 nmod _ _ 33 4 4 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 32 nummod _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 35 + + SYM SYM _ 9 obl _ _ 36 £ £ SYM $ _ 9 obl _ _ 37 1 1 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 36 nummod _ _ 38 = = SYM SYM _ 39 case _ _ 39 £ £ SYM $ _ 36 nmod _ _ 40 5 5 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 39 nummod _ _ 41 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 42 + + SYM SYM _ 9 obl _ _ 43 £ £ SYM $ _ 9 obl _ _ 44 5 5 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 43 nummod _ _ 45 = = SYM SYM _ 46 case _ _ 46 £ £ SYM $ _ 43 nmod _ _ 47 10 10 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 46 nummod _ _ 48 , , PUNCT , _ 54 punct _ _ 49 and and CCONJ CC _ 54 cc _ _ 50 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 51 nmod:poss _ _ 51 change change NOUN NN Number=Sing 54 nsubj _ _ 52 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 54 cop _ _ 53 50 50 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 54 nummod _ _ 54 p p NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 55 + + SYM SYM _ 56 cc _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=56:case 56 £ £ SYM $ _ 54 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=54:appos 57 1 1 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 56 nummod _ _ 58 + + SYM SYM _ 59 cc _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=59:case 59 £ £ SYM $ _ 56 conj _ _ 60 5 5 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 59 nummod _ _ 61 = = SYM SYM _ 62 case _ _ 62 £ £ X GW _ 59 conj _ _ 63 6.50 6.50 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Frac 62 flat _ _ 64 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **check** | to-infinitive | the fastest way *not said here* | change | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent change=Theme | | 2 | **is** | present | the fastest way | | | the price | | count *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **pay** | present | Jake | | | | | for a £ toy | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent £=Asset for toy=Theme | | 4 | **is a** | present | p's change | 50 p | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **change** | | p | | | | | | nom change «event intransitive»: poss=agent | 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: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): R7-rel-agree ×4. **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: [Prices and change at the till, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/11-prices-and-change-at-the-till/0/) - next →: [Prices and change at the till, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/11-prices-and-change-at-the-till/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/11-prices-and-change-at-the-till/)