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title: Each year both children get one year older, so the sum of two ages g… — Ages that grow together: sum and difference · tree and pragmatics
description: Each year both children get one year older, so the sum of two ages grows by 2 each year, and the difference never changes. Who acts: children, sum, difference. A sentence of the lesson «Ages that grow together: sum and difference» of the lessons course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tr
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# Ages that grow together: sum and difference, sentence 0

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Each year both children get one year older, so the sum of two ages grows by 2 each year, and the difference never changes.

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**Who acts:** children, sum, difference · **What happens:** get, grow, not change, sum · **To what, where:** two ages

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Ages that grow together: sum and difference» 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 (children, sum, difference), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:lessons:140-ages-sum-and-difference.lesson:0
# text = Each year both children get one year older, so the sum of two ages grows by 2 each year, and the difference never changes.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = lessons
# lesson = 140-ages-sum-and-difference.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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:cc:preconj|HaikuPos=CCONJ:CC:_
4	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl:unmarked	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:obl:unmarked
8	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	xcomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:amod
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	sum	sum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	ages	age	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
16	grows	grow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	obl	_	_
19	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	det	_	_
20	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl:unmarked	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	difference	difference	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
25	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
26	changes	change	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **get** | present | both children |  |  |  | year | old *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **grow** | present | the sum of two ages |  |  |  | year | by 2 | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by 2=Location |
| 3 | **not** **change** | present | the difference |  |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **sum** |  |  | two ages |  |  |  |  | nom sum «possession transitive»: of=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:140-ages-sum-and-difference.lesson:0`.

**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): R5-strong ×2, 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/).

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