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title: Careful with giving: if Tom gives Ben 3 marbles and then they have t… — Sum and difference: two amounts from their total… · tree and pragmatics
description: Careful with giving: if Tom gives Ben 3 marbles and then they have the same, Tom had 3 + 3 = 6 more than Ben, not 3. Who acts: Tom, marbles. 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 with its dependency tr
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# Sum and difference: two amounts from their total and their gap, sentence 2

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Careful with giving: if Tom gives Ben 3 marbles and then they have the same, Tom had 3 + 3 = 6 more than Ben, not 3.

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**Who acts:** Tom, marbles · **What happens:** give, have · **To what, where:** 3 marbles, Ben, same, 3 6

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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 (Tom, marbles), 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:2
# text = Careful with giving: if Tom gives Ben 3 marbles and then they have the same, Tom had 3 + 3 = 6 more than Ben, not 3.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Careful	careful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	with	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	giving	give	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:obl
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
5	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	Tom	Tom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
8	Ben	Ben	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	iobj	_	_
9	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	marbles	marble	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	obj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	Tom	Tom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:conj
20	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
21	+	+	SYM	SYM	_	20	flat	_	_
22	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	flat	_	_
23	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	24	dep	_	_
24	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	obj	_	_
25	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	24	amod	_	_
26	than	than	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Ben	Ben	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	30	advmod	_	_
30	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	appos	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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 | **give** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **give** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | Tom | 3 marbles | Ben |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent ben=Recipient marble=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | present | marbles *= marble* | the same |  |  | then |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent same=Patient |
| 4 | **have** | past | Tom | 3 6 |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 6=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: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): R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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