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title: If in 3 years the two ages will add up to 26, today they add up to 2… — Ages that grow together: sum and difference · tree and pragmatics
description: If in 3 years the two ages will add up to 26, today they add up to 26 − 3 − 3 = 20. Who acts: two ages, ages. A sentence of the lesson «Ages that grow together: sum and difference» of the lessons course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ages that grow together: sum and difference, sentence 2

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If in 3 years the two ages will add up to 26, today they add up to 26 − 3 − 3 = 20.

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**Who acts:** two ages, ages · **What happens:** add up

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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 (two ages, ages), 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:2
# text = If in 3 years the two ages will add up to 26, today they add up to 26 − 3 − 3 = 20.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	ages	age	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
8	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	add	add	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
10	up	up	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	26	26	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct
14	today	today	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl:unmarked	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	add	add	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	up	up	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	26	26	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	obl	_	_
20	−	−	SYM	SYM	Number=Sing	19	dep	_	_
21	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	flat	_	_
22	−	−	SYM	SYM	Number=Sing	21	dep	_	_
23	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	appos	_	_
24	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	25	dep	_	_
25	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	dep	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	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 | **add up** *speech: assert* *a condition, not said to happen* | future | the two ages |  |  |  | year | to 26 | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to 26=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **add up** *speech: assert* | present | ages *= age* |  |  |  | today | to 26 | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to 26=Co-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: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): R6-punct-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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