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description: To count coins fast, group the same coins, multiply, then add the groups; to check change, count up from the price to the money you gave. Who acts: you. 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 tr
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# Coins and notes: pounds and pence, dollars and cents, sentence 3

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To count coins fast, group the same coins, multiply, then add the groups; to check change, count up from the price to the money you gave.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** count, group, multiply, add, check, count up · **To what, where:** coins, same coins, groups, change, price, money

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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), 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:3
# text = To count coins fast, group the same coins, multiply, then add the groups; to check change, count up from the price to the money you gave.
# 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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	count	count	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
3	coins	coin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	group	group	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	coins	coin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	multiply	multiply	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
14	add	add	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	groups	group	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	check	check	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:parataxis
20	change	change	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	count	count	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
23	up	up	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
24	from	from	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	price	price	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
30	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	acl:relcl	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2: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** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | coins |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coin=Theme |
| 2 | **group** | imperative | you *not said here* | the same coins |  |  |  |  | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coin=Theme |
| 3 | **multiply** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **add** *speech: assert* | infinitive | you *not said here* | the groups |  |  | then |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent group=Patient |
| 5 | **check** | to-infinitive |  | change |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent change=Theme |
| 6 | **count up** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  | the price to the money |  |  | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
| 7 | **give** | past | you | the money *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme |

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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:3`.

**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, R6-punct-agree ×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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