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title: The difference between two ages never changes: if Ben is 4 years old… — Ages: years ago, years from now · tree and pragmatics
description: The difference between two ages never changes: if Ben is 4 years older than Mia now, he is 4 years older in every year. Who acts: difference, Ben. 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 
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# Ages: years ago, years from now, sentence 1

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The difference between two ages never changes: if Ben is 4 years older than Mia now, he is 4 years older in every year.

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**Who acts:** difference, Ben · **What happens:** not change, be

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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 (difference, Ben), 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:1
# text = The difference between two ages never changes: if Ben is 4 years older than Mia now, he is 4 years older in every year.
# 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): no change
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	difference	difference	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	between	between	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	ages	age	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	changes	change	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
9	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
10	Ben	Ben	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
12	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl:unmarked	_	_
14	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	advcl	_	_
15	than	than	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Mia	Mia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
17	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	23	advmod	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
21	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl:unmarked	_	_
23	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	14	conj	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	26	det	_	_
26	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **not** **change** | present | the difference between two ages |  |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | Ben |  |  |  | year | than Mia; old *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | Ben |  |  |  | now; year | old *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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**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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