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title: Picture a jacket at £40 with a sign "half price, then a further quar… — Olympiad: best buys and change at the till ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: Picture a jacket at £40 with a sign "half price, then a further quarter off": half leaves £20, and a quarter of £20 is £5, so you pay £15, not the £10 that "three quarters off" would give. Who acts: you, half, three quarters. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: best buys and change at the till ★★★» 
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# Olympiad: best buys and change at the till ★★★, sentence 2

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Picture a jacket at £40 with a sign "half price, then a further quarter off": half leaves £20, and a quarter of £20 is £5, so you pay £15, not the £10 that "three quarters off" would give.

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**Who acts:** you, half, three quarters · **What happens:** picture, leave, pay, give · **To what, where:** jacket

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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, half, three quarters), 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:2
# text = Picture a jacket at £40 with a sign "half price, then a further quarter off": half leaves £20, and a quarter of £20 is £5, so you pay £15, not the £10 that "three quarters off" would give.
# 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): R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Picture	picture	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	jacket	jacket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	£	£	SYM	$	_	1	obl	_	_
6	40	40	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
9	sign	sign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	_
11	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	12	compound	_	_
12	price	price	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:advmod
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:det
16	further	further	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:amod
17	quarter	quarter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	off	off	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	parataxis	_	_
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct
20	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
21	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	22	nsubj	_	_
22	leaves	leave	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
23	£	£	SYM	$	_	22	obj	_	_
24	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	quarter	quarter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	£	£	SYM	$	_	28	nmod	_	_
31	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
32	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
33	£	£	SYM	$	_	23	conj	_	_
34	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	33	nummod	_	_
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	so	so	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
37	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
38	pay	pay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
39	£	£	SYM	$	_	38	obj	_	_
40	15	15	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	39	nummod	_	_
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
42	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	44	advmod	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	£	£	SYM	$	_	39	conj	_	_
45	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	44	nummod	_	_
46	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	53	obj	_	_
47	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	49	punct	_	_
48	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	49	nummod	_	_
49	quarters	quarter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	53	nsubj	_	_
50	off	off	ADV	RB	_	49	advmod	_	_
51	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	53	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=53:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_
52	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	53	aux	_	_
53	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	44	acl:relcl	_	_
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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 | **picture** | imperative | you *not said here* | a jacket |  |  |  | with sign | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent jacket=Theme |
| 2 | **leave** | present | half |  |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent £=Theme |
| 3 | **pay** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent £=Asset |
| 4 | **give** | would | three quarters |  |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=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:041-olympiad-best-buys-and-change-at-the-till.lesson:2`.

**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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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