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title: In 3 × (4 + 2) we first find 4 + 2 = 6, then 3 × 6 = 18. — Brackets in a story: first the group, then the g… · tree and pragmatics
description: In 3 × (4 + 2) we first find 4 + 2 = 6, then 3 × 6 = 18. Who acts: we. A sentence of the lesson «Brackets in a story: first the group, then the groups» of the lessons course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Brackets in a story: first the group, then the groups, sentence 1

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In 3 × (4 + 2) we first find 4 + 2 = 6, then 3 × 6 = 18.

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**Who acts:** we · **What happens:** find · **To what, where:** 4, 3 ×

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Brackets in a story: first the group, then the groups» 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 (we), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:lessons:137-brackets-as-stories.lesson:1
# text = In 3 × (4 + 2) we first find 4 + 2 = 6, then 3 × 6 = 18.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = lessons
# lesson = 137-brackets-as-stories.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	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	×	×	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
4	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	5	punct	_	_
5	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	appos	_	_
6	+	+	SYM	SYM	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	flat	_	_
8	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	5	punct	_	_
9	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	11	advmod	_	_
11	find	find	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	obj	_	_
13	+	+	SYM	SYM	_	14	cc	_	_
14	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	conj	_	_
15	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	16	case	_	_
16	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nmod	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	then	then	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
19	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	×	×	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	xcomp	_	_
21	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	flat	_	_
22	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	23	case	_	_
23	18	18	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	nmod	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | present | we | 4 |  | 3 × |  | = 6; first *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 4=Topic |

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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:137-brackets-as-stories.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): 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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