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title: The car gains 60 − 40 = 20 km each hour, so it catches the bus after… — Catching up · tree and pragmatics
description: The car gains 60 − 40 = 20 km each hour, so it catches the bus after 120 / 20 = 6 hours. Who acts: car. 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 3

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The car gains 60 − 40 = 20 km each hour, so it catches the bus after 120 / 20 = 6 hours.

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**Who acts:** car · **What happens:** gain, catch · **To what, where:** bus

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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 (car), 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:3
# text = The car gains 60 − 40 = 20 km each hour, so it catches the bus after 120 / 20 = 6 hours.
# 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 ×2
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	gains	gain	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	60	60	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	−	−	SYM	SYM	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	40	40	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	flat	_	_
7	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	8	case	_	_
8	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:nmod
9	km	km	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
10	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	det	_	_
11	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	catches	catch	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	bus	bus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	after	after	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
19	120	120	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
20	/	/	SYM	SYM	ExtPos=ADP	21	case	_	_
21	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	nmod	_	_
22	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	23	case	_	_
23	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:nmod
24	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **gain** | present | the car |  |  |  | hour |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent −=Theme |
| 2 | **catch** | present | car | the bus |  |  | hour |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bus=Theme |

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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: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): R5-strong ×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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