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title: A library had 476 books, bought 158 and gave away 290: 476 + 158 = 6… — Numbers to 1000: adding and taking away in stories · tree and pragmatics
description: A library had 476 books, bought 158 and gave away 290: 476 + 158 = 634, and 634 - 290 = 344 books. Who acts: library. A sentence of the lesson «Numbers to 1000: adding and taking away in stories» of the lessons course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# Numbers to 1000: adding and taking away in stories, sentence 2

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A library had 476 books, bought 158 and gave away 290: 476 + 158 = 634, and 634 - 290 = 344 books.

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**Who acts:** library · **What happens:** have, buy, give away · **To what, where:** 476 books, 158, 290

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Numbers to 1000: adding and taking away in stories» 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 (library), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:lessons:141-three-digit-stories.lesson:2
# text = A library had 476 books, bought 158 and gave away 290: 476 + 158 = 634, and 634 - 290 = 344 books.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = lessons
# lesson = 141-three-digit-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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	library	library	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	476	476	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	books	book	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	bought	buy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:acl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part
8	158	158	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
11	away	away	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	290	290	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	obj	_	_
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
14	476	476	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	_
15	+	+	SYM	SYM	_	16	cc	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:advmod
16	158	158	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	conj	_	_
17	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	18	case	_	_
18	634	634	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	nmod	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
21	634	634	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
22	-	-	SYM	SYM	ExtPos=ADP	23	case	_	_
23	290	290	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	nmod	_	_
24	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	25	case	_	_
25	344	344	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:nmod
26	books	book	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	parataxis	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **have** | past | a library | 476 books |  |  |  | 476 *obl* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Patient |
| 2 | **buy** | past | a library *not said here* | 158 |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 158=Theme |
| 3 | **give away** | past | a library *not said here* | 290 |  |  |  | away *property* | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent 290=Theme |

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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:141-three-digit-stories.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): 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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