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title: Change is easiest by counting up from the price, like the shopkeeper… — Olympiad: best buys and change at the till ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: Change is easiest by counting up from the price, like the shopkeeper: for £6.35 paid with £10, add 5p to £6.40, 10p to £6.50, 50p to £7 and £3 to £10 - that is £3.65 back. Who acts: Change. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: best buys and change at the till ★★★» of the money course of Mova's primar
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# Olympiad: best buys and change at the till ★★★, sentence 3

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Change is easiest by counting up from the price, like the shopkeeper: for £6.35 paid with £10, add 5p to £6.40, 10p to £6.50, 50p to £7 and £3 to £10 - that is £3.65 back.

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**Who acts:** Change · **What happens:** be, count up, pay, add · **To what, where:** price, 5 p

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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 (Change), 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:3
# text = Change is easiest by counting up from the price, like the shopkeeper: for £6.35 paid with £10, add 5p to £6.40, 10p to £6.50, 50p to £7 and £3 to £10 - that is £3.65 back.
# 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Change	change	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	easiest	easy	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	0	root	_	_
4	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	counting	count	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	price	price	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
11	like	like	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	shopkeeper	shopkeeper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	£	£	SYM	$	_	18	obl	_	_
17	6.35	6.35	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
18	paid	pay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	£	£	SYM	$	_	18	obl	_	_
21	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	add	add	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
24	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	p	p	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	£	£	SYM	$	_	23	obl	_	_
28	6.40	6.40	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	31	nummod	_	_
31	p	p	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:conj
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	£	£	SYM	$	_	31	nmod	_	_
34	6.50	6.50	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	33	nummod	_	_
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	50	50	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	37	nummod	_	_
37	p	p	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
38	to	to	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	£	£	SYM	$	_	37	nmod	_	_
40	7	7	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	39	nummod	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	£	£	SYM	$	_	3	conj	_	_
43	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	42	nummod	_	_
44	to	to	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	£	£	SYM	$	_	42	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=42:conj
46	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	45	nummod	_	_
47	-	-	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=45:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:::_
48	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	50	nsubj	_	_
49	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	50	cop	_	_
50	£	£	SYM	$	_	45	conj	_	_
51	3.65	3.65	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	50	nummod	_	_
52	back	back	ADV	RB	_	50	advmod	_	_
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | Change |  |  |  |  | 50 p *obl*; easy *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **count up** | gerund | Change *not said here* |  |  | the price |  | like the shopkeeper | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **pay** | past | Change *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for £=Theme |
| 4 | **add** *speech: assert* | present | Change *not said here* | 5 p and 10 p |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent p=Patient to £=Co-Patient |

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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:3`.

**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 ×1, 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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