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title: In the USA, 100 cents make $1; a quarter is 25 cents, a dime 10 cent… — Coins and notes: pounds and pence, dollars and c… · tree and pragmatics
description: In the USA, 100 cents make $1; a quarter is 25 cents, a dime 10 cents, a nickel 5 cents and a penny 1 cent. Who acts: 100 cents, quarter. 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 prag
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# Coins and notes: pounds and pence, dollars and cents, sentence 7

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In the USA, 100 cents make $1; a quarter is 25 cents, a dime 10 cents, a nickel 5 cents and a penny 1 cent.

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**Who acts:** 100 cents, quarter · **What happens:** make, be · **To what, where:** USA, 25 cents

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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 (100 cents, quarter), 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:7
# text = In the USA, 100 cents make $1; a quarter is 25 cents, a dime 10 cents, a nickel 5 cents and a penny 1 cent.
# 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	USA	USA	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	100	100	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	cents	cent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	$	$	SYM	$	_	7	obj	_	_
9	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	quarter	quarter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	25	25	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	cents	cent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:det
18	dime	dime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	_
19	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	cents	cent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	nickel	nickel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
24	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	cents	cent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:det
28	penny	penny	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
29	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
30	cent	cent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **make** | present | 100 cents |  |  | the USA |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset $=Product |
| 2 | **is a** | present | a quarter | 25 cents and 10 cents and a nickel and 5 cents and penny 1 cent |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:7`.

**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 ×2, 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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