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title: A price of £0.99 is 99p, only 1p less than £1; shops use prices endi… — Coins and notes: pounds and pence, dollars and c… · tree and pragmatics
description: A price of £0.99 is 99p, only 1p less than £1; shops use prices ending in 9 because they feel cheaper. Who acts: price, shops, prices. 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 pragmat
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# Coins and notes: pounds and pence, dollars and cents, sentence 15

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A price of £0.99 is 99p, only 1p less than £1; shops use prices ending in 9 because they feel cheaper.

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**Who acts:** price, shops, prices · **What happens:** be, use, end, feel · **To what, where:** 99 p, prices, 9

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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 (price, shops, prices), 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:15
# text = A price of £0.99 is 99p, only 1p less than £1; shops use prices ending in 9 because they feel cheaper.
# 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
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	price	price	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	£	£	SYM	$	_	2	nmod	_	_
5	0.99	0.99	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	99	99	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	p	p	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	only	only	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	p	p	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
13	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	15	advmod	_	_
14	than	than	ADP	IN	_	13	fixed	_	_
15	£	£	SYM	$	_	12	nmod	_	_
16	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	shops	shop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
19	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj
20	prices	price	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
21	ending	end	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	acl	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	9	9	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	obl	_	_
24	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
25	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	feel	feel	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
27	cheaper	cheap	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	26	xcomp	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **is a** | present | a price | 99 p |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **use** | present | shops | prices |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent price=Patient |
| 3 | **end** | gerund | prices *not said here* |  |  | 9 |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 4 | **feel** | present | shops *= shop* |  |  |  |  | cheap *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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:15`.

**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. **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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