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title: When several children have a cake each, add up their new ages to fin… — Candles and party bags · tree and pragmatics
description: When several children have a cake each, add up their new ages to find all the candles. Who acts: several children, you. A sentence of the lesson «Candles and party bags» of the lessons course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Candles and party bags, sentence 1

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When several children have a cake each, add up their new ages to find all the candles.

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**Who acts:** several children, you · **What happens:** have, add up, find · **To what, where:** cake, new ages, candles

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Candles and party bags» 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 (several children, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:lessons:256-birthday-candles.lesson:1
# text = When several children have a cake each, add up their new ages to find all the candles.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = lessons
# lesson = 256-birthday-candles.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	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
2	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	cake	cake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	each	each	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	4	advmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
9	add	add	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	up	up	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	ages	age	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
16	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	18	det:predet	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	candles	candle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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** | present | several children | a cake |  |  |  | each *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cake=Patient |
| 2 | **add up** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* | their new ages |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent age=Patient |
| 3 | **find** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | all candles |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent candle=Topic |

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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:256-birthday-candles.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): 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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