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title: She spent 4 dollars, then half of the rest, then 3 more, and had 6 l… — Working backwards through three steps · tree and pragmatics
description: She spent 4 dollars, then half of the rest, then 3 more, and had 6 left: 6 + 3 = 9, 9 × 2 = 18, 18 + 4 = 22 dollars at first. Who acts: She. 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 
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# Working backwards through three steps, sentence 2

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She spent 4 dollars, then half of the rest, then 3 more, and had 6 left: 6 + 3 = 9, 9 × 2 = 18, 18 + 4 = 22 dollars at first.

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**Who acts:** She · **What happens:** spend, have · **To what, where:** 4 dollars, 6 left

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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 (She), 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:2
# text = She spent 4 dollars, then half of the rest, then 3 more, and had 6 left: 6 + 3 = 9, 9 × 2 = 18, 18 + 4 = 22 dollars at first.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	spent	spend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	dollars	dollar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
7	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	2	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct
12	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
13	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	obj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
18	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	left	left	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
21	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	appos	_	_
22	+	+	SYM	SYM	_	23	cc	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:advmod
23	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	conj	_	_
24	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	25	case	_	_
25	9	9	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	nmod	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	9	9	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	appos	_	_
28	×	×	SYM	SYM	Number=Sing	27	flat	_	_
29	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	27	flat	_	_
30	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	31	case	_	_
31	18	18	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	29	nmod	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	18	18	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	38	nummod	_	_
34	+	+	SYM	SYM	_	35	cc	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=35:advmod
35	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	33	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=33:nmod
36	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	37	case	_	_
37	22	22	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	38	nummod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=33:nmod
38	dollars	dollar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
39	at	at	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	17	obl	_	_
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **spend** | past | She | 4 dollars |  |  |  | half of the rest *obl* | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | past | She *not said here* | 6 left |  |  |  |  | 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:172-backwards-three-steps.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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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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