--- title: Before the gift, the giver had the gift more than that half; the oth… — Before and after: giving to make equal · tree and pragmatics description: Before the gift, the giver had the gift more than that half; the other had the gift less. Who acts: giver, other. A sentence of the lesson «Before and after: giving to make equal» of the lessons course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/196-before-and-after/2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Lessons](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/) / [Before and after: giving to make equal](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/196-before-and-after/) / 2 # Before and after: giving to make equal, sentence 2 Before the gift, the giver had the gift more than that half; the other had the gift less. **Who acts:** giver, other · **What happens:** have · **To what, where:** gift This is a sentence of the lesson «Before and after: giving to make equal» 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 (giver, other), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:lessons:196-before-and-after.lesson:2 # text = Before the gift, the giver had the gift more than that half; the other had the gift less. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = lessons # lesson = 196-before-and-after.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Before before ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 gift gift NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 giver giver NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 gift gift NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 7 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:amod 11 than than ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 13 det _ _ 13 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 10 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:obl 14 ; ; PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=7:punct 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 nsubj _ _ 17 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 gift gift NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 less less ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 17 advmod _ _ 21 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | past | the giver | the gift | | | before the gift | | tree rules | | 2 | **have** | past | the other | the gift | | | | less *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gift=Patient | 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. **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:196-before-and-after.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, 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/). - ← previous: [Before and after: giving to make equal, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/196-before-and-after/1/) - next →: [Before and after: giving to make equal, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/196-before-and-after/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/196-before-and-after/)