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title: Sixpence was an old British coin; two sixpences made a shilling, and… — Pocket money and earning it with chores · tree and pragmatics
description: Sixpence was an old British coin; two sixpences made a shilling, and prices were much smaller then. Who acts: Sixpence, two sixpences, prices. A sentence of the lesson «Pocket money and earning it with chores» of the money course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# Pocket money and earning it with chores, sentence 14

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Sixpence was an old British coin; two sixpences made a shilling, and prices were much smaller then.

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**Who acts:** Sixpence, two sixpences, prices · **What happens:** be, make · **To what, where:** old British coin, shilling

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Pocket money and earning it with chores» 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 (Sixpence, two sixpences, prices), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:money:006-pocket-money-and-earning-it-with-chores.lesson:14
# text = Sixpence was an old British coin; two sixpences made a shilling, and prices were much smaller then.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = money
# lesson = 006-pocket-money-and-earning-it-with-chores.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
1	Sixpence	sixpence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	coin	coin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	sixpences	sixpence	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	shilling	shilling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	prices	price	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
16	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	much	much	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	smaller	small	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	10	conj	_	_
19	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **is a** | past | Sixpence | a old British coin |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | past | two sixpences | a shilling |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset shilling=Product |
| 3 | **is** | past | prices |  |  |  | then | small *property* | tree rules |

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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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**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. **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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