--- title: When she is three times as old, the difference is two of the son's a… — Ages: in how many years will one be twice or thr… · tree and pragmatics description: When she is three times as old, the difference is two of the son's ages: 24 ÷ 2 = 12, so the son will be 12, in 12 - 8 = 4 years. Who acts: difference. 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 d --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/158-ages-how-many-times/3/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Lessons](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/) / [Ages: in how many years will one be tw…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/158-ages-how-many-times/) / 3 # Ages: in how many years will one be twice or three times as old, sentence 3 When she is three times as old, the difference is two of the son's ages: 24 ÷ 2 = 12, so the son will be 12, in 12 - 8 = 4 years. **Who acts:** difference · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** two, 12 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), 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:3 # text = When she is three times as old, the difference is two of the son's ages: 24 ÷ 2 = 12, so the son will be 12, in 12 - 8 = 4 years. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 7 mark _ _ 2 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 4 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl:unmarked _ _ 6 as as ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 7 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 advcl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 difference difference NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 11 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 12 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod:poss _ _ 16 's 's PART POS _ 15 case _ _ 17 ages age NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nmod _ _ 18 : : PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 19 24 24 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 12 parataxis _ _ 20 ÷ ÷ SYM SYM Number=Sing 21 case _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=21:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 21 2 2 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 19 nmod _ _ 22 = = SYM SYM _ 23 case _ _ 23 12 12 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 21 nmod _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 so so ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 28 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 29 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 30 cop _ _ 30 12 12 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 27 appos _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 in in ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 12 12 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 27 appos _ _ 34 - - SYM SYM ExtPos=ADP 35 case _ _ 35 8 8 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 33 nmod _ _ 36 = = SYM SYM _ 38 cc _ _ 37 4 4 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 38 nummod _ _ 38 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 conj _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | difference | | | | time | old *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | present | the difference | two and the son | | | of the son's ages | | tree rules | | 3 | **is a** | future | | 12 | | | | | tree rules | 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. **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:3`. **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 ×1, 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/). - ← previous: [Ages: in how many years will one be tw…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/158-ages-how-many-times/2/) - next →: [The bar model: the whole from the part…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/159-model-method-units/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/158-ages-how-many-times/)