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title: Odd and even numbers take turns, so in a range about half of the num… — How many odd numbers in a range · tree and pragmatics
description: Odd and even numbers take turns, so in a range about half of the numbers are odd; the ends decide whether it is one more or one less. Who acts: Odd numbers, ends, half. A sentence of the lesson «How many odd numbers in a range» of the lessons course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree 
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# How many odd numbers in a range, sentence 0

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Odd and even numbers take turns, so in a range about half of the numbers are odd; the ends decide whether it is one more or one less.

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**Who acts:** Odd numbers, ends, half · **What happens:** take, be, decide · **To what, where:** turns, range, one · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «How many odd numbers in a range» 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 (Odd numbers, ends, half), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:lessons:183-odd-numbers-in-a-range.lesson:0
# text = Odd and even numbers take turns, so in a range about half of the numbers are odd; the ends decide whether it is one more or one less.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = lessons
# lesson = 183-odd-numbers-in-a-range.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 ×1, R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Odd	odd	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=1:cc
3	even	even	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
4	numbers	number	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	take	take	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	turns	turn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=5:punct
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	range	range	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
12	about	about	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	11	nmod	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	numbers	number	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
17	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	odd	odd	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	ends	end	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
22	decide	decide	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
23	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
26	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	ccomp	_	_
27	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	26	conj	_	_
28	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	conj	_	_
30	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	26	nmod	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **take** | present | Odd numbers | turns |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent turn=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  | a range about half of the numbers |  | odd *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **decide** | present | the ends |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | present | half | one |  |  |  | less *nmod* | tree rules |
| 5 | **be** |  | half *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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:183-odd-numbers-in-a-range.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 ×1, R2-punct-next ×1, 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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