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title: On day N the step has been added N - 1 times: start + (N - 1) × step. — A pattern day by day · tree and pragmatics
description: On day N the step has been added N - 1 times: start + (N - 1) × step. A sentence of the lesson «A pattern day by day» of the lessons course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# A pattern day by day, sentence 1

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On day N the step has been added N - 1 times: start + (N - 1) × step.

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**What happens:** add · **To what, where:** step

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This is a sentence of the lesson «A pattern day by day» 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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:lessons:114-day-patterns.lesson:1
# text = On day N the step has been added N - 1 times: start + (N - 1) × step.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = lessons
# lesson = 114-day-patterns.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): R6-punct-agree ×3
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
3	N	N	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	step	step	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	added	add	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	N	N	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct
11	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
14	start	start	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
15	+	+	SYM	SYM	_	14	compound	_	_
16	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	17	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22:punct
17	N	N	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	_
19	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	appos	_	_
20	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	17	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct
21	×	×	SYM	SYM	_	22	compound	_	_
22	step	step	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **add** *speech: assert* | present · perfect · passive |  | the step |  |  | day; time | start *obl:unmarked* | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

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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:114-day-patterns.lesson:1`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×3. **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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