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title: Tip a piggy bank onto the carpet and you see a jumble of coins; the… — Coins and notes: pounds and pence, dollars and c… · tree and pragmatics
description: Tip a piggy bank onto the carpet and you see a jumble of coins; the size of a coin does not tell you its value, the number stamped on it does. Who acts: you, size, number. A sentence of the lesson «Coins and notes: pounds and pence, dollars and cents» of the money course of Mova's primary school wit
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# Coins and notes: pounds and pence, dollars and cents, sentence 0

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Tip a piggy bank onto the carpet and you see a jumble of coins; the size of a coin does not tell you its value, the number stamped on it does.

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**Who acts:** you, size, number · **What happens:** tip, see, not tell, stamp, jumble, value · **To what, where:** piggy bank, carpet, jumble, value, you, size · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Coins and notes: pounds and pence, dollars and cents» 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, size, number), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:money:002-coins-and-notes-pounds-and-pence-dollars-and-cents.lesson:0
# text = Tip a piggy bank onto the carpet and you see a jumble of coins; the size of a coin does not tell you its value, the number stamped on it does.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = money
# lesson = 002-coins-and-notes-pounds-and-pence-dollars-and-cents.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Tip	tip	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	piggy	piggy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	onto	onto	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	carpet	carpet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	jumble	jumble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	coins	coin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	size	size	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	coin	coin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
23	tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:conj
24	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	iobj	_	_
25	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	value	value	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
30	stamped	stamp	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
31	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
32	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=33:nsubj
33	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	advcl	_	_
34	.	.	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 | **tip** | imperative | you *not said here* | a piggy bank |  | the carpet |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent bank=Theme onto carpet=Destination |
| 2 | **see** | present | you | a jumble of coins |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer jumble=Stimulus |
| 3 | **not** **tell** *speech: assert* | present · do-support | the size of a coin | size's value | you |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient value=Topic |
| 4 | **stamp** | past | the number | size |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **jumble** |  |  | coins |  |  |  |  | nom jumble «state transitive»: of=patient |
| 6 | **value** |  | size |  |  |  |  |  | nom value «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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): 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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