--- title: To give change in the fewest coins, take the biggest coin that fits… — Olympiad: best buys and change at the till ★★★ · tree and pragmatics description: To give change in the fewest coins, take the biggest coin that fits again and again: £2.80 is £2, 50p, 20p and 10p, four coins. Who acts: you, biggest coin. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, biggest coin), 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:8 # text = To give change in the fewest coins, take the biggest coin that fits again and again: £2.80 is £2, 50p, 20p and 10p, four coins. # 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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 To to PART TO _ 2 mark _ _ 2 give give VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root 3 change change NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 fewest few ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 7 amod _ _ 7 coins coin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 take take VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 biggest big ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 12 amod _ _ 12 coin coin NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 13 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 14 nsubj _ _ 14 fits fit VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 acl:relcl _ _ 15 again again ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 again again ADV RB _ 15 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:advmod 18 : : PUNCT : _ 2 punct _ _ 19 £ £ SYM $ _ 23 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=23:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:GW:Number=Sing|PronType=Ind|Typo=Yes 20 2.80 2.80 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Frac 19 flat _ _ 21 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 22 £ £ SYM $ _ 23 goeswith _ _ 23 2 2 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 parataxis _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 50 50 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 26 nummod _ _ 26 p p NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 appos _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 20 20 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 29 nummod _ _ 29 p p NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 list _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 31 10 10 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 32 nummod _ _ 32 p p NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 conj _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 34 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 35 nummod _ _ 35 coins coin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 appos _ _ 36 . . 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 | **give** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | change | | the fewest coins | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent change=Theme | | 2 | **take** | imperative | you *not said here* | the biggest coin | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coin=Theme | | 3 | **fit** | present | the biggest coin | | | | again | | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is a** | present | | 2 | | | | | tree rules | 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:8`. **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, 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. 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