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title: Counting up from the price to the money you gave is the easiest way… — Coins and notes: pounds and pence, dollars and c… · tree and pragmatics
description: Counting up from the price to the money you gave is the easiest way to check your change. Who acts: you, Counting, your. A sentence of the lesson «Coins and notes: pounds and pence, dollars and cents» of the money course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# Coins and notes: pounds and pence, dollars and cents, sentence 12

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Counting up from the price to the money you gave is the easiest way to check your change.

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**Who acts:** you, Counting, your · **What happens:** count up, give, be, check, change · **To what, where:** price, money, easiest way, change

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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, Counting, your), 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:12
# text = Counting up from the price to the money you gave is the easiest way to check your change.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Counting	count	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	csubj	_	_
2	up	up	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	price	price	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	easiest	easy	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	14	amod	_	_
14	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	check	check	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	acl	_	_
17	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=18:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=DET:PRP$:Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs
18	change	change	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	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 | **count up** | gerund |  |  |  | the price to the money |  |  | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **give** | past | you | the money *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | present | Counting | the easiest way |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **check** | to-infinitive |  | your change |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent change=Theme |
| 5 | **change** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom change «event intransitive»: 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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**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:002-coins-and-notes-pounds-and-pence-dollars-and-cents.lesson:12`.

**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 ×1, R8-pos-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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