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title: To estimate is to make a quick rough guess, for example by rounding… — Prices and change at the till · tree and pragmatics
description: To estimate is to make a quick rough guess, for example by rounding prices before adding them. 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 6

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To estimate is to make a quick rough guess, for example by rounding prices before adding them.

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**What happens:** estimate, be, round, add · **To what, where:** prices, mistakes

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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: 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:6
# text = To estimate is to make a quick rough guess, for example by rounding prices before adding them.
# 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	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	estimate	estimate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	csubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	quick	quick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	rough	rough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	guess	guess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	example	example	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
13	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	rounding	round	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
15	prices	price	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
16	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
17	adding	add	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **estimate** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn estimate-34.2-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | for example; make *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **round** | gerund |  | prices |  |  |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent price=Patient |
| 4 | **add** *speech: assert* | gerund |  | mistakes *= mistake* |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |

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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:6`.

**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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