Prices and change at the till, sentence 12
Giving a few extra coins so the change comes out round, like £1.10 for a 60p lolly, means fewer coins for everyone.
Who acts: change · What happens: give, come out, mean · To what, where: few extra coins, fewer coins
This is a sentence of the lesson «Prices 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 (change), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 coins | det |
| 3 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 coins | amod |
| 4 | extra | extra | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 coins | amod |
| 5 | coins | coin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Giving | obj |
| 6 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 9 comes | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 change | det |
| 8 | change | change | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 comes | nsubj |
| 9 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Giving | advcl |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 comes | compound:prt |
| 11 | round | round | ADV | _ | 9 comes | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 £ | punct |
| 13 | like | like | ADP | _ | 14 £ | case |
| 14 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 1 Giving | obl |
| 15 | 1.10 | 1.10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Frac | 14 £ | nummod |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 lolly | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 lolly | det |
| 18 | 60 | 60 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 19 p | nummod |
| 19 | p | p | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 lolly | compound |
| 20 | lolly | lolly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 £ | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 means | punct |
| 22 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Giving | parataxis |
| 23 | fewer | few | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 24 coins | amod |
| 24 | coins | coin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 means | obj |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 everyone | case |
| 26 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 24 coins | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Giving | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | gerund | a few extra coins | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coin=Theme | |||||
| 2 | come out | present | the change | round property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | mean | present | fewer coins | for everyone | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot coin=Theme for everyone=Attribute |
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.
Licence: CC 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:011-prices-and-change-at-the-till.lesson:12.
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.
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