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title: If a bat and a ball cost £1.10 together and the bat costs £1 more th… — Sounds right, but is wrong · tree and pragmatics
description: If a bat and a ball cost £1.10 together and the bat costs £1 more than the ball, the ball costs 5p and the bat £1.05. Who acts: bat, ball. 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 9

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If a bat and a ball cost £1.10 together and the bat costs £1 more than the ball, the ball costs 5p and the bat £1.05.

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**Who acts:** bat, ball · **What happens:** cost · **To what, where:** more, 5 p

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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), 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:9
# text = If a bat and a ball cost £1.10 together and the bat costs £1 more than the ball, the ball costs 5p and the bat £1.05.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×2
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	bat	bat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=3:cc
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
7	cost	cost	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	advcl	_	_
8	£	£	X	GW	_	3	obj	_	_
9	1.10	1.10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Frac	8	flat	_	_
10	together	together	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=7:cc
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	bat	bat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	costs	cost	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
15	£	£	SYM	$	_	17	obl:unmarked	_	_
16	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
17	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	14	obj	_	_
18	than	than	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	costs	cost	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
25	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
26	p	p	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	bat	bat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
30	£	£	SYM	$	_	29	obj	_	_
31	1.05	1.05	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Frac	30	nummod	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	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** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | a bat and a ball |  |  |  |  | together *property* | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **cost** | present | the bat | more |  |  |  |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme more=Value |
| 3 | **cost** | present | the ball | 5 p and the bat |  |  |  |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme p=Value |

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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: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): R1-cc-next ×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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