--- title: Undo «spent half» by doubling, undo «spent 4» by adding 4 back, undo… — Working backwards through two steps · tree and pragmatics description: Undo «spent half» by doubling, undo «spent 4» by adding 4 back, undo «got 4 more» by taking 4 away. Who acts: you. A sentence of the lesson «Working backwards through two steps» of the lessons course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/117-working-backwards/1/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Lessons](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/) / [Working backwards through two steps](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/117-working-backwards/) / 1 # Working backwards through two steps, sentence 1 Undo «spent half» by doubling, undo «spent 4» by adding 4 back, undo «got 4 more» by taking 4 away. **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** undo, spend, add back, get, take away · **To what, where:** doubling, half, 4 · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Working backwards through two steps» 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 (you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:lessons:117-working-backwards.lesson:1 # text = Undo «spent half» by doubling, undo «spent 4» by adding 4 back, undo «got 4 more» by taking 4 away. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = lessons # lesson = 117-working-backwards.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 ×1 1 Undo undo VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 « « PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ _ 3 spent spend VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 1 obj _ _ 4 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 5 » » PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 6 by by SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 7 doubling doubling NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 undo undo VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 conj _ _ 10 « « PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ _ 11 spent spend VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 ccomp _ _ 12 4 4 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 11 obj _ _ 13 » » PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ _ 14 by by SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 15 adding add VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 advcl _ _ 16 4 4 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 15 obj _ _ 17 back back ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 undo undo VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 conj _ _ 20 « « PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ _ 21 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 ccomp _ _ 22 4 4 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 21 obj _ _ 23 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 22 advmod _ _ 24 » » PUNCT '' _ 21 punct _ _ 25 by by SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 26 taking take VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 21 advcl _ _ 27 4 4 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 26 obj _ _ 28 away away ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **undo** | imperative | you *not said here* | doubling | | | | | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **spend** *in a quote* | participle | | half | | | | | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent half=Asset | | 3 | **undo** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **spend** *in a quote* | past | you *not said here* | 4 | | | | | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 4=Asset | | 5 | **add back** *speech: assert* | gerund | you *not said here* | 4 | | | | | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 4=Patient | | 6 | **undo** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **get** *in a quote* | past | you *not said here* | 4 | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer 4=Stimulus | | 8 | **take away** | gerund | you *not said here* | 4 | | | | away *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 4=Theme | 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:117-working-backwards.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): R7-rel-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Working backwards through two steps, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/117-working-backwards/0/) - next →: [Working backwards through two steps, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/117-working-backwards/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/117-working-backwards/)