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title: Check it: a £1.10 bat plus a 10p ball is £1.20. — Sounds right, but is wrong · tree and pragmatics
description: Check it: a £1.10 bat plus a 10p ball is £1.20. Who acts: you. 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 2

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Check it: a £1.10 bat plus a 10p ball is £1.20.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** check · **To what, where:** ball

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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 (you), 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:2
# text = Check it: a £1.10 bat plus a 10p ball is £1.20.
# 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): no change
1	Check	check	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	£	£	SYM	$	_	1	obj	_	_
6	1.10	1.10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	flat	_	_
7	bat	bat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
8	plus	plus	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	p	p	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	£	£	SYM	$	_	5	goeswith	_	_
15	1.20	1.20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	flat	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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 | **check** | imperative | you *not said here* | ball |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP.attribute»: agent=Agent it=Theme £=Attribute |

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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:2`.

**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): no change. **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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