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title: Canada's $1 coin is called a "loonie" because it shows a bird called… — Money around the world: euros, hryvnias, yuan an… · tree and pragmatics
description: Canada's $1 coin is called a "loonie" because it shows a bird called a loon; the $2 coin is the "toonie". Who acts: coin, bird, $ coin, Canada. A sentence of the lesson «Money around the world: euros, hryvnias, yuan and more» of the money course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and 
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# Money around the world: euros, hryvnias, yuan and more, sentence 10

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Canada's $1 coin is called a "loonie" because it shows a bird called a loon; the $2 coin is the "toonie".

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**Who acts:** coin, bird, $ coin, Canada · **What happens:** call, show, be, coin · **To what, where:** $ coin, bird, loon, toonie · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Money around the world: euros, hryvnias, yuan and more» 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 (coin, bird, $ coin, Canada), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:money:003-money-around-the-world-euros-hryvnias-yuan-and-more.lesson:10
# text = Canada's $1 coin is called a "loonie" because it shows a bird called a loon; the $2 coin is the "toonie".
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = money
# lesson = 003-money-around-the-world-euros-hryvnias-yuan-and-more.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	Canada	Canada	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	_
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	$	$	SYM	$	_	5	compound	_	_
4	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
5	coin	coin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
10	loonie	loonie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	xcomp	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
12	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	loon	loon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	xcomp	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	$	$	SYM	$	_	24	compound	_	_
23	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
24	coin	coin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	_
28	toonie	toonie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	parataxis	_	_
29	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	28	punct	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **call** | present · passive |  | Canada's $ coin |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 2 | **show** | present | coin | a bird |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent bird=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **call** | participle | a bird *not said here* | a loon |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | the $ coin | the toonie |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **coin** |  | Canada |  |  |  |  |  | nom coin «possession transitive»: poss=agent |

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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:003-money-around-the-world-euros-hryvnias-yuan-and-more.lesson:10`.

**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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