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title: The bus is 40 × 3 = 120 km ahead. — Catching up · tree and pragmatics
description: The bus is 40 × 3 = 120 km ahead. Who acts: bus. A sentence of the lesson «Catching up» of the lessons course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Catching up, sentence 2

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The bus is 40 × 3 = 120 km ahead.

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**Who acts:** bus · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** 40 × 120 km

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Catching up» 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 (bus), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:lessons:164-catching-up.lesson:2
# text = The bus is 40 × 3 = 120 km ahead.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = lessons
# lesson = 164-catching-up.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 ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bus	bus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
4	40	40	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	compound	_	_
5	×	×	SYM	SYM	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
6	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	flat	_	_
7	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	8	case	_	_
8	120	120	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:nmod
9	km	km	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	ahead	ahead	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **is a** | present | the bus | 40 × 120 km |  |  |  | ahead *property* | tree rules |

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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:164-catching-up.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 ×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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