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title: If you know the average of the first three instead, their total is 3… — The score that makes the average · tree and pragmatics
description: If you know the average of the first three instead, their total is 3 times that average. Who acts: you, total. A sentence of the lesson «The score that makes the average» of the lessons course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The score that makes the average, sentence 2

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If you know the average of the first three instead, their total is 3 times that average.

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**Who acts:** you, total · **What happens:** know, be · **To what, where:** average, 3 times

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The score that makes the average» 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 (you, total), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:lessons:168-the-missing-score.lesson:2
# text = If you know the average of the first three instead, their total is 3 times that average.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = lessons
# lesson = 168-the-missing-score.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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	average	average	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	9	amod	_	_
9	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nmod	_	_
10	instead	instead	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
12	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	total	total	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
17	that	that	DET	DT	PronType=Dem	18	det	_	_
18	average	average	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16: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 | **know** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | the average of the first three |  |  |  | instead *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer average=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is a** | present | marks's total | 3 times |  |  |  | that average *nmod* | 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:168-the-missing-score.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): R6-punct-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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