Olympiad: best buys and change at the till ★★★, sentence 8

To give change in the fewest coins, take the biggest coin that fits again and again: £2.80 is £2, 50p, 20p and 10p, four coins.

Who acts: you, biggest coin · What happens: give, take, fit, be · To what, where: change, fewest coins, biggest coin, 2

This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: best buys 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 (you, biggest coin), 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	To	to	PART	_	2 give	mark
2	give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	9 take	advcl
3	change	change	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 give	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 coins	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 coins	det
6	fewest	few	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 coins	amod
7	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 give	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 take	punct
9	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 coin	det
11	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	12 coin	amod
12	coin	coin	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 take	obj
13	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 fits	nsubj
14	fits	fit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 coin	acl:relcl
15	again	again	ADV	_	14 fits	advmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 again	cc
17	again	again	ADV	_	15 again	conj
18	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 give	punct
19	£	£	SYM	_	23 2	nsubj
20	2.80	2.80	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Frac	19 £	flat
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 2	cop
22	£	£	SYM	_	23 2	goeswith
23	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 give	parataxis
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 p	punct
25	50	50	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	26 p	nummod
26	p	p	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 2	appos
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 p	punct
28	20	20	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	29 p	nummod
29	p	p	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 p	list
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 p	cc
31	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	32 p	nummod
32	p	p	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 p	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 coins	punct
34	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	35 coins	nummod
35	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 2	appos
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 give	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	give	to-infinitive	you not said here	change	the fewest coins		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent change=Theme
2	take	imperative	you not said here	the biggest coin			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coin=Theme
3	fit	present	the biggest coin			again	vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
4	is a	present		2			tree rules

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:041-olympiad-best-buys-and-change-at-the-till.lesson:8.

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): R5-strong ×3, R8-pos-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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