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title: Using the biggest coins first gives the fewest coins for any amount. — Coins and notes: pounds and pence, dollars and c… · tree and pragmatics
description: Using the biggest coins first gives the fewest coins for any amount. Who acts: Using. 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 clause.
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# Coins and notes: pounds and pence, dollars and cents, sentence 13

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Using the biggest coins first gives the fewest coins for any amount.

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**Who acts:** Using · **What happens:** use, give · **To what, where:** biggest coins, fewest coins

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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 (Using), 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:13
# text = Using the biggest coins first gives the fewest coins for any amount.
# 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): no change
1	Using	use	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	csubj	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	biggest	big	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	4	amod	_	_
4	coins	coin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
5	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	6	advmod	_	_
6	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	fewest	few	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	9	amod	_	_
9	coins	coin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	det	_	_
12	amount	amount	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | gerund |  | the biggest coins |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coin=Patient |
| 2 | **give** | present | Using | the fewest coins |  |  |  | for any amount; first *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent coin=Theme for amount=Asset |

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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:13`.

**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): no change. **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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