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title: A bat and a ball cost £1.10 and the bat costs £1 more: "The ball is… — Sounds right, but is wrong · tree and pragmatics
description: A bat and a ball cost £1.10 and the bat costs £1 more: "The ball is 10p!" says everyone. Who acts: bat, ball, everyone. A sentence of the lesson «Sounds right, but is wrong» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Sounds right, but is wrong, sentence 1

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A bat and a ball cost £1.10 and the bat costs £1 more: "The ball is 10p!" says everyone.

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**Who acts:** bat, ball, everyone · **What happens:** cost, be, say · **To what, where:** £ 1.10, 10 p · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Sounds right, but is wrong» of the world 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 (bat, ball, everyone), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:183-sounds-right-but-is-wrong.lesson:1
# text = A bat and a ball cost £1.10 and the bat costs £1 more: "The ball is 10p!" says everyone.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 183-sounds-right-but-is-wrong.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	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bat	bat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
6	cost	cost	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
7	£	£	SYM	$	ExtPos=PROPN	8	compound	_	_
8	1.10	1.10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Frac	6	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	bat	bat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	costs	cost	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	£	£	SYM	$	_	12	obl:unmarked	_	_
14	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
15	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	12	advmod	_	_
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
17	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	_
18	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
21	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	p	p	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	parataxis	_	_
23	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
24	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
25	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
26	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	25	nsubj	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12: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 | **cost** | present | a bat and a ball | £ 1.10 |  |  |  |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme 1.10=Value |
| 2 | **cost** | present | the bat |  |  |  |  |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | the ball | 10 p |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **say** *speech: express* | present | everyone |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |

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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:world:183-sounds-right-but-is-wrong.lesson:1`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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