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title: Everyone gets one year older each year, so in 5 years a child of 8 w… — Ages: years ago, years from now · tree and pragmatics
description: Everyone gets one year older each year, so in 5 years a child of 8 will be 8 + 5 = 13, and 3 years ago was 8 - 3 = 5. Who acts: Everyone, child. A sentence of the lesson «Ages: years ago, years from now» of the lessons course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# Ages: years ago, years from now, sentence 0

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Everyone gets one year older each year, so in 5 years a child of 8 will be 8 + 5 = 13, and 3 years ago was 8 - 3 = 5.

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**Who acts:** Everyone, child · **What happens:** get, be · **To what, where:** 8

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Ages: years ago, years from now» of the lessons 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 (Everyone, child), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:lessons:113-ages.lesson:0
# text = Everyone gets one year older each year, so in 5 years a child of 8 will be 8 + 5 = 13, and 3 years ago was 8 - 3 = 5.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = lessons
# lesson = 113-ages.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): R5-strong ×1
1	Everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	2	nsubj	_	_
2	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	xcomp	_	_
6	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
7	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	8	8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	nmod	_	_
17	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	cop	_	_
19	8	8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	obl	_	_
20	+	+	SYM	SYM	_	21	cc	_	_
21	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	conj	_	_
22	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	19	punct	_	_
23	13	13	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	nmod	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
27	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl:unmarked	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:obl:unmarked
28	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
30	8	8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	obl	_	_
31	-	-	SYM	SYM	ExtPos=ADP	32	case	_	_
32	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	30	nmod	_	_
33	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	30	punct	_	_
34	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	30	nmod	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **get** | present | Everyone |  |  |  | year | old *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is a** | future | a child of 8 | 8 |  |  |  | 13 *nmod* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | past |  | 8 |  |  |  | - 3; 5 *nmod*; ago *property* | tree rules |

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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:lessons:113-ages.lesson:0`.

**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 ×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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