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title: Undo «took away 5» by adding 5, undo «halved» by doubling, undo «add… — Working backwards through three steps · tree and pragmatics
description: Undo «took away 5» by adding 5, undo «halved» by doubling, undo «added 3» by taking 3 away, undo «doubled» by halving. Who acts: you. A sentence of the lesson «Working backwards through three steps» of the lessons course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# Working backwards through three steps, sentence 1

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Undo «took away 5» by adding 5, undo «halved» by doubling, undo «added 3» by taking 3 away, undo «doubled» by halving.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** undo, take away, add, halve, take, double · **To what, where:** 5, doubling, 3 · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Working backwards through three steps» 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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:lessons:172-backwards-three-steps.lesson:1
# text = Undo «took away 5» by adding 5, undo «halved» by doubling, undo «added 3» by taking 3 away, undo «doubled» by halving.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = lessons
# lesson = 172-backwards-three-steps.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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Undo	undo	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
2	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	_
3	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
4	away	away	ADV	RB	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	obj	_	_
6	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
7	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	adding	add	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	_
9	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	obj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
11	undo	undo	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
12	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	_
13	halved	halve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	obj	_	_
14	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
15	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
16	doubling	doubling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	undo	undo	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
19	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	_
20	added	add	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	obj	_	_
21	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	obj	_	_
22	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21:punct
23	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
24	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	_
25	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	obj	_	_
26	away	away	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	undo	undo	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
29	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	30	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=28:punct
30	doubled	double	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	obj	_	_
31	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	30	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=33:punct
32	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
33	halving	halve	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	30	conj	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- 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 | **undo** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **take away** *in a quote* | past |  | 5 |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 5=Theme |
| 3 | **add** *speech: assert* | gerund | you *not said here* | 5 |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 5=Patient |
| 4 | **undo** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **halve** *in a quote* | participle |  | doubling |  |  |  |  | vn remedy-45.7-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **undo** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **add** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past |  | 3 |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 3=Patient |
| 8 | **take** | gerund |  | 3 |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 3=Theme |
| 9 | **undo** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 10 | **double** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 11 | **halve** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn remedy-45.7-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |

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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:172-backwards-three-steps.lesson:1`.

**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 ×3, R7-rel-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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