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title: Change it back into pounds to see the real price: if 500 gems cost £… — In-game currency: coins and gems are real money · tree and pragmatics
description: Change it back into pounds to see the real price: if 500 gems cost £4.99, each gem is about 1p, so a 2,000-gem item costs about £20. Who acts: you, 500 gems, gem, gem item. A sentence of the lesson «In-game currency: coins and gems are real money» of the money course of Mova's primary school with it
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# In-game currency: coins and gems are real money, sentence 2

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Change it back into pounds to see the real price: if 500 gems cost £4.99, each gem is about 1p, so a 2,000-gem item costs about £20.

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**Who acts:** you, 500 gems, gem, gem item · **What happens:** change back, see, cost, be · **To what, where:** it, pounds, real price, 1 p

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This is a sentence of the lesson «In-game currency: coins and gems are real money» 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, 500 gems, gem, gem item), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:money:016-in-game-currency-coins-and-gems-are-real-money.lesson:2
# text = Change it back into pounds to see the real price: if 500 gems cost £4.99, each gem is about 1p, so a 2,000-gem item costs about £20.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = money
# lesson = 016-in-game-currency-coins-and-gems-are-real-money.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): R7-rel-agree ×3
1	Change	change	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	back	back	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	pounds	pound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	price	price	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
12	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	500	500	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	gems	gem	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	cost	cost	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	advcl	_	_
16	£	£	SYM	$	_	15	obj	_	_
17	4.99	4.99	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Frac	16	nummod	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
19	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	det	_	_
20	gem	gem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
22	about	about	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
23	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	p	p	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
26	so	so	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
28	2,000	2000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	_
30	gem	gem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	item	item	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
32	costs	cost	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:conj
33	about	about	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=34:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
34	£	£	SYM	$	_	32	obj	_	_
35	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	34	nummod	_	_
36	.	.	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 | **change back** | imperative | you *not said here* | it |  |  |  | into pounds *result* | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent it=Patient into pound=Result |
| 2 | **see** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | the real price |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer price=Stimulus |
| 3 | **cost** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | 500 gems |  |  |  |  |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme £=Value |
| 4 | **is a** | present | each gem | 1 p |  |  |  | about *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **cost** | present | a gem item |  |  |  |  |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme £=Value |

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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:016-in-game-currency-coins-and-gems-are-real-money.lesson:2`.

**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): R7-rel-agree ×3. **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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