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title: Different shops charge different prices for the same thing; checking… — Prices and change at the till · tree and pragmatics
description: Different shops charge different prices for the same thing; checking a few shops is called shopping around. Who acts: Different shops, checking. A sentence of the lesson «Prices and change at the till» of the money course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# Prices and change at the till, sentence 11

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Different shops charge different prices for the same thing; checking a few shops is called shopping around.

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**Who acts:** Different shops, checking · **What happens:** charge, check, call, shop around · **To what, where:** different prices, few shops · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Prices and change at the till» of the money 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 (Different shops, checking), 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:11
# text = Different shops charge different prices for the same thing; checking a few shops is called shopping around.
# 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 ×1
1	Different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	shops	shop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	charge	charge	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	prices	price	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	checking	check	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	csubj:pass	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	shops	shop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
17	shopping	shop	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	xcomp	_	_
18	around	around	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## 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 | **charge** | present | Different shops | different prices |  |  |  | for the same thing | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent price=Patient for thing=Theme |
| 2 | **check** | gerund |  | a few shops |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shop=Theme |
| 3 | **call** *speech: assert* | present · passive | checking |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: clause=Topic |
| 4 | **shop around** | gerund | checking *not said here* |  |  |  |  | around *property* | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |

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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:money:011-prices-and-change-at-the-till.lesson:11`.

**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 ×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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