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title: Sometimes the unknown number appears twice: 3 bags and 5 more weigh… — The unknown on both sides of a story · tree and pragmatics
description: Sometimes the unknown number appears twice: 3 bags and 5 more weigh as much as 1 bag and 21 more. Who acts: unknown number, 3 bags. A sentence of the lesson «The unknown on both sides of a story» of the lessons course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# The unknown on both sides of a story, sentence 0

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Sometimes the unknown number appears twice: 3 bags and 5 more weigh as much as 1 bag and 21 more.

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**Who acts:** unknown number, 3 bags · **What happens:** appear, weigh

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The unknown on both sides of a story» 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 (unknown number, 3 bags), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:lessons:171-unknown-on-both-sides.lesson:0
# text = Sometimes the unknown number appears twice: 3 bags and 5 more weigh as much as 1 bag and 21 more.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = lessons
# lesson = 171-unknown-on-both-sides.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): R1-cc-next ×2
1	Sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	unknown	unknown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	appears	appear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	5	advmod	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
8	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	bags	bag	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=9:cc
11	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	conj	_	_
13	weigh	weigh	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
14	as	as	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	much	much	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
16	as	as	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=18:cc
20	21	21	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	18	conj	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **appear** | present | the unknown number |  |  |  |  | sometimes, twice *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **weigh** | present | 3 bags |  |  |  |  | as 1 bag | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=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:171-unknown-on-both-sides.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): R1-cc-next ×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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