--- title: If two ages add up to 20 and one child is 4 years older, take the 4… — Ages: years ago, years from now · tree and pragmatics description: If two ages add up to 20 and one child is 4 years older, take the 4 away and halve: (20 - 4) / 2 = 8 and 8 + 4 = 12. Who acts: two ages, one child, you. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two ages, one child, you), 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:2 # text = If two ages add up to 20 and one child is 4 years older, take the 4 away and halve: (20 - 4) / 2 = 8 and 8 + 4 = 12. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×2 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 2 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 ages age NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 add add VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 advcl _ _ 5 up up ADP RP _ 4 compound:prt _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 20 20 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 4 obl _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 9 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 10 nummod _ _ 10 child child NOUN NN 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 4 conj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 16 take take VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 4 4 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 16 obj _ _ 19 away away ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:compound:prt 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 halve halve VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 22 : : PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 23 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 24 punct _ _ 24 20 20 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 16 obl _ _ 25 - - SYM SYM ExtPos=ADP 26 case _ _ 26 4 4 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 24 nmod _ _ 27 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 24 punct _ _ 28 / / SYM SYM _ 29 cc _ _ 29 2 2 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 24 conj _ _ 30 = = SYM SYM _ 31 case _ _ 31 8 8 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 29 nmod _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 33 8 8 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 37 compound _ _ 34 + + SYM SYM _ 35 cc _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=35:advmod 35 4 4 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 33 nmod _ _ 36 = = SYM SYM _ 37 case _ _ 37 12 12 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 24 conj _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **add up** *speech: assert* *a condition, not said to happen* | present | two ages | | | | | to 20 | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to 20=Co-Patient | | 2 | **is** | present | one child | | | | year | old *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **take away** | imperative | you *not said here* | the 4 | | | | 20 - 4 *obl*; away *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 4=Theme | | 4 | **halve** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn remedy-45.7-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | 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](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:2`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×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/). - ← previous: [Ages: years ago, years from now, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/113-ages/1/) - next →: [A pattern day by day, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/114-day-patterns/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/113-ages/)