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title: Market sellers often say a rounded price out loud, so it is worth do… — Prices and change at the till · tree and pragmatics
description: Market sellers often say a rounded price out loud, so it is worth doing the sum yourself. Who acts: Market sellers, doing. 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 14

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Market sellers often say a rounded price out loud, so it is worth doing the sum yourself.

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**Who acts:** Market sellers, doing · **What happens:** say, round, be, do · **To what, where:** rounded price, sum · **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 (Market sellers, 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:14
# text = Market sellers often say a rounded price out loud, so it is worth doing the sum yourself.
# 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Market	market	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	sellers	seller	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	often	often	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	rounded	round	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
7	price	price	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	out	out	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:advmod
9	loud	loud	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	expl	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	worth	worth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	_
15	doing	do	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	csubj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	sum	sum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	15	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: suggest
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=suggest

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Market sellers | a rounded price |  |  |  | loud, often *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent price=Topic |
| 2 | **round** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | present | doing |  |  |  |  | worth *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **do** | gerund |  | the sum |  |  |  | yourself *obl* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sum=Eventuality |

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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:14`.

**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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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