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title: If A then has 3 times as many as B, the gap is 2 of B's units: one u… — Exam 1: two exchanges · tree and pragmatics
description: If A then has 3 times as many as B, the gap is 2 of B's units: one unit is 24 ÷ 2 = 12. Who acts: A, gap, one unit. A sentence of the lesson «Exam 1: two exchanges» of the lessons course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Exam 1: two exchanges, sentence 2

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If A then has 3 times as many as B, the gap is 2 of B's units: one unit is 24 ÷ 2 = 12.

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**Who acts:** A, gap, one unit · **What happens:** have, be · **To what, where:** many, 2, 24

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Exam 1: two exchanges» 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 (A, gap, one unit), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:lessons:198-two-exchanges.lesson:2
# text = If A then has 3 times as many as B, the gap is 2 of B's units: one unit is 24 ÷ 2 = 12.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = lessons
# lesson = 198-two-exchanges.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): no change
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	A	A	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
4	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
5	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
7	as	as	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obj	_	_
9	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	B	B	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	gap	gap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	B	B	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	's	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
19	units	unit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
20	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
21	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	unit	unit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
24	24	24	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	parataxis	_	_
25	÷	÷	SYM	SYM	Number=Sing	24	nmod:unmarked	_	_
26	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	25	flat	_	_
27	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	28	case	_	_
28	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	nmod	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	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 | **have** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | A | many |  |  | then; time | as B | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent many=Patient |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the gap | 2 |  |  |  | of B's units | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present | one unit | 24 |  |  |  | = 12 | 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:198-two-exchanges.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): no change. **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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