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description: To compare a small pack and a big pack fairly, work out the price for the same amount, called the unit price: four small 250 ml juices at 50p make a litre for £2, but the 1 litre bottle is £1.60, so the big one saves 40p a litre. Who acts: you, price, four small ml juices, big one. A sentence of the
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# Unit prices and sales that are not really sales, sentence 0

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To compare a small pack and a big pack fairly, work out the price for the same amount, called the unit price: four small 250 ml juices at 50p make a litre for £2, but the 1 litre bottle is £1.60, so the big one saves 40p a litre.

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**Who acts:** you, price, four small ml juices, big one · **What happens:** compare, work out, call, make, save · **To what, where:** small pack, price, unit price, litre, 40 p · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Unit prices and sales that are not really sales» 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 (you, price, four small ml juices, big one), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:money:013-unit-prices-and-sales-that-are-not-really-sales.lesson:0
# text = To compare a small pack and a big pack fairly, work out the price for the same amount, called the unit price: four small 250 ml juices at 50p make a litre for £2, but the 1 litre bottle is £1.60, so the big one saves 40p a litre.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = money
# lesson = 013-unit-prices-and-sales-that-are-not-really-sales.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×2
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	compare	compare	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	pack	pack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=5:cc
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	pack	pack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
10	fairly	fairly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
13	out	out	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	price	price	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	amount	amount	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	acl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	unit	unit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	price	price	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
26	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
27	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
28	250	250	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	29	nummod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:nummod
29	ml	ml	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	juices	juice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj	_	_
31	at	at	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	50	50	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	33	nummod	_	_
33	p	p	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
34	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	ccomp	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	litre	litre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
37	for	for	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	£	£	SYM	$	_	36	nmod	_	_
39	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	38	nummod	_	_
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
41	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
43	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	44	nummod	_	_
44	litre	litre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	compound	_	_
45	bottle	bottle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nsubj	_	_
46	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	47	cop	_	_
47	£	£	SYM	$	_	34	conj	_	_
48	1.60	1.60	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Frac	47	nummod	_	_
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
50	so	so	ADV	RB	_	54	advmod	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
52	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	amod	_	_
53	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	nsubj	_	_
54	saves	save	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	47	parataxis	_	_
55	40	40	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	56	nummod	_	_
56	p	p	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	obj	_	_
57	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
58	litre	litre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	nmod:unmarked	_	_
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	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 | **compare** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | a small pack and a big pack |  |  |  | fairly *property* | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pack=Patient |
| 2 | **work out** | imperative | you *not said here* | the price |  |  |  | for the same amount | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent price=Topic |
| 3 | **call** *speech: assert* | participle | the price *not said here* | the unit price |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **make** | infinitive | four small ml juices at 50 p | a litre |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent litre=Product for £=Asset |
| 5 | **save** | present | the big one | 40 p  a litre |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent p=Theme |

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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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**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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×2. **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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