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title: Giving a few extra coins so the change comes out round, like £1.10 f… — Prices and change at the till · tree and pragmatics
description: Giving a few extra coins so the change comes out round, like £1.10 for a 60p lolly, means fewer coins for everyone. Who acts: change. 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 clause.
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# Prices and change at the till, sentence 12

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Giving a few extra coins so the change comes out round, like £1.10 for a 60p lolly, means fewer coins for everyone.

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**Who acts:** change · **What happens:** give, come out, mean · **To what, where:** few extra coins, fewer coins

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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 (change), 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:12
# text = Giving a few extra coins so the change comes out round, like £1.10 for a 60p lolly, means fewer coins for everyone.
# 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): no change
1	Giving	give	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	extra	extra	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	coins	coin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
6	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	change	change	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
10	out	out	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	round	round	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	like	like	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	£	£	SYM	$	_	1	obl	_	_
15	1.10	1.10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Frac	14	nummod	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	60	60	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	p	p	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	lolly	lolly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
23	fewer	few	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	24	amod	_	_
24	coins	coin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	24	nmod	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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 | **give** | gerund |  | a few extra coins |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coin=Theme |
| 2 | **come out** | present | the change |  |  |  |  | round *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **mean** | present |  | fewer coins |  |  |  | for everyone | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot coin=Theme for everyone=Attribute |

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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:12`.

**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): no change. **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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