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title: The difference between two ages never changes: every year both peopl… — Ages: in how many years will one be twice or thr… · tree and pragmatics
description: The difference between two ages never changes: every year both people get one year older. Who acts: difference, people. A sentence of the lesson «Ages: in how many years will one be twice or three times as old» of the lessons course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Ages: in how many years will one be twice or three times as old, sentence 0

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The difference between two ages never changes: every year both people get one year older.

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**Who acts:** difference, people · **What happens:** not change, get

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Ages: in how many years will one be twice or three times as old» 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 (difference, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:lessons:158-ages-how-many-times.lesson:0
# text = The difference between two ages never changes: every year both people get one year older.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = lessons
# lesson = 158-ages-how-many-times.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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	difference	difference	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	between	between	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	ages	age	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	changes	change	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
9	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl:unmarked	_	_
11	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det:predet	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:det:predet|HaikuPos=DET:PDT:PronType=Tot
12	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
14	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl:unmarked	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:obl:unmarked
16	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	13	xcomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:amod
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **not** **change** | present | the difference between two ages |  |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **get** | present | both people |  |  |  | year | old *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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:158-ages-how-many-times.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, R8-pos-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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