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title: Counting up from the price to the money paid gives the change and is… — Olympiad: best buys and change at the till ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: Counting up from the price to the money paid gives the change and is a good way to check it. Who acts: Counting. 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.
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# Olympiad: best buys and change at the till ★★★, sentence 9

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Counting up from the price to the money paid gives the change and is a good way to check it.

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**Who acts:** Counting · **What happens:** count up, pay, give, be, check · **To what, where:** price, money, change, good way

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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 (Counting), 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:9
# text = Counting up from the price to the money paid gives the change and is a good way to check it.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Counting	count	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:advcl
2	up	up	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	price	price	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
9	paid	pay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
10	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	change	change	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	check	check	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	acl	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **count up** | gerund |  |  |  | the price |  | to the money | vn matter-91 «NP V PP.experiencer»: agent=Stimulus to money=Experiencer |
| 2 | **pay** | participle |  | the money *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **give** | present | Counting | the change |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent change=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | present | Counting *not said here* | a good way |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **check** | to-infinitive | Counting *not said here* | change |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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:9`.

**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): R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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