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title: If two amounts add up to a total and one is bigger by a difference,… — Sum and difference: two amounts from their total… · tree and pragmatics
description: If two amounts add up to a total and one is bigger by a difference, add the difference to the total: now both amounts are as big as the bigger one, so halve. Who acts: two amounts, one, you, amounts. A sentence of the lesson «Sum and difference: two amounts from their total and their gap» of the les
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# Sum and difference: two amounts from their total and their gap, sentence 0

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If two amounts add up to a total and one is bigger by a difference, add the difference to the total: now both amounts are as big as the bigger one, so halve.

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**Who acts:** two amounts, one, you, amounts · **What happens:** add up, be, add, halve · **To what, where:** difference

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Sum and difference: two amounts from their total and their gap» 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 amounts, one, you, amounts), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:lessons:149-sum-and-difference.lesson:0
# text = If two amounts add up to a total and one is bigger by a difference, add the difference to the total: now both amounts are as big as the bigger one, so halve.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = lessons
# lesson = 149-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): no change
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	amounts	amount	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	add	add	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	total	total	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nsubj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	conj	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	difference	difference	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
17	add	add	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	difference	difference	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	total	total	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
23	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
24	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	29	advmod	_	_
25	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	26	det	_	_
26	amounts	amount	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
27	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
28	as	as	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	parataxis	_	_
30	as	as	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	33	amod	_	_
33	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	so	so	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	halve	halve	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	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* | present | two amounts |  |  |  |  | to a total | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to total=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **is** | present | one |  |  |  |  | by a difference; big *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **add** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* | the difference |  |  |  | to the total | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent difference=Patient to total=Co-Patient |
| 4 | **is** | present | both amounts |  |  |  | now | as the bigger one; big *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **halve** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn remedy-45.7-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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:149-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): 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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