--- title: "Buy one, get the second half price" on two £6 books means £6 plus £… — Olympiad: best buys and change at the till ★★★ · tree and pragmatics description: "Buy one, get the second half price" on two £6 books means £6 plus £3, which is £9. Who acts: you. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: best buys and change at the till ★★★» of the money course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/41-olympiad-best-buys-and-change-at-the-till/11/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Money](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/) / [Olympiad: best buys and change at the…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/41-olympiad-best-buys-and-change-at-the-till/) / 11 # Olympiad: best buys and change at the till ★★★, sentence 11 "Buy one, get the second half price" on two £6 books means £6 plus £3, which is £9. **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** buy, get, mean · **To what, where:** one, second half price, two £ books This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: best buys and change at the till ★★★» 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:041-olympiad-best-buys-and-change-at-the-till.lesson:11 # text = "Buy one, get the second half price" on two £6 books means £6 plus £3, which is £9. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = money # lesson = 041-olympiad-best-buys-and-change-at-the-till.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 Buy buy VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 obj _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:advcl 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 7 second second ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 9 amod _ _ 8 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 9 compound _ _ 9 price price NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 10 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct 11 on on ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 12 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 15 nummod _ _ 13 £ £ SYM $ _ 15 compound _ _ 14 6 6 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 13 nummod _ _ 15 books book NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ _ 16 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ _ 17 £ £ SYM $ _ 16 obj _ _ 18 6 6 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 17 nummod _ _ 19 plus plus CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 £ £ SYM $ _ 17 conj _ _ 21 3 3 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 20 nummod _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 25 nsubj _ _ 24 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 25 £ £ SYM $ _ 20 acl:relcl _ _ 26 9 9 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 25 nummod _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **buy** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | one | | | | | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | | 2 | **get** *in a quote* | infinitive | | the second half price | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer price=Stimulus | | 3 | **mean** | present | you *not said here* | | | two £ books | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent £=Topic | 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. **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:041-olympiad-best-buys-and-change-at-the-till.lesson:11`. **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): 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. 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