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title: In Australia the $1 and $2 coins are gold-coloured, so people call t… — Coins and notes: pounds and pence, dollars and c… · tree and pragmatics
description: In Australia the $1 and $2 coins are gold-coloured, so people call them "gold coins", though they contain no gold. Who acts: $ coins, people, coins. 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 a
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# Coins and notes: pounds and pence, dollars and cents, sentence 9

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In Australia the $1 and $2 coins are gold-coloured, so people call them "gold coins", though they contain no gold.

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**Who acts:** $ coins, people, coins · **What happens:** be, call, contain · **To what, where:** Australia, coins, gold · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 ($ coins, people, coins), 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:9
# text = In Australia the $1 and $2 coins are gold-coloured, so people call them "gold coins", though they contain no gold.
# 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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Australia	Australia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
4	$	$	SYM	$	_	9	compound	_	_
5	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	$	$	SYM	$	_	4	conj	_	_
8	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
9	coins	coin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
10	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
11	gold	gold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	_
13	coloured	coloured	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
16	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
17	call	call	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:parataxis|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	_
20	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
21	coins	coin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:obl
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
25	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	contain	contain	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
27	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	28	det	_	_
28	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	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** | present | the $ coins |  |  | Australia |  | coloured *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **call** | present | people | coins *= coin* |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient |
| 3 | **contain** | present | coins *= coin* | no gold |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot gold=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:9`.

**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 ×2, 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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