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title: Sometimes the shelf price and the till price do not match; you can p… — Prices and change at the till · tree and pragmatics
description: Sometimes the shelf price and the till price do not match; you can politely point it out and shops usually fix it. Who acts: shelf price, you, shops. 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 e
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# Prices and change at the till, sentence 8

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Sometimes the shelf price and the till price do not match; you can politely point it out and shops usually fix it.

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**Who acts:** shelf price, you, shops · **What happens:** not match, point out, fix · **To what, where:** price

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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 (shelf price, you, shops), 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:8
# text = Sometimes the shelf price and the till price do not match; you can politely point it out and shops usually fix it.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	11	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	shelf	shelf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	price	price	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	till	till	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	price	price	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
9	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	match	match	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=11:punct
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	politely	politely	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	point	point	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:conj
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	out	out	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	shops	shop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
21	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	fix	fix	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:conj
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	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 | **not** **match** | present · do-support | the shelf price and the till price |  |  |  |  | sometimes *property* | vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **point out** | can | you | price |  |  |  | politely *property* | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 3 | **fix** | present | shops | price |  |  |  | usually *property* | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=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:8`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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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