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title: When two numbers are next to each other, double the smaller one and… — Doubles and near doubles · tree and pragmatics
description: When two numbers are next to each other, double the smaller one and add 1. Who acts: two numbers, you. A sentence of the lesson «Doubles and near doubles» of the lessons course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Doubles and near doubles, sentence 2

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When two numbers are next to each other, double the smaller one and add 1.

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**Who acts:** two numbers, you · **What happens:** be, double, add · **To what, where:** smaller one, 1

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Doubles and near doubles» 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 (two numbers, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:lessons:063-doubles-and-near-doubles.lesson:2
# text = When two numbers are next to each other, double the smaller one and add 1.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = lessons
# lesson = 063-doubles-and-near-doubles.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
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	numbers	number	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	next	next	ADV	RB	_	10	advcl	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	5	obl	_	_
8	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	fixed	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
10	double	double	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	smaller	small	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	13	amod	_	_
13	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=10:cc
15	add	add	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
16	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	obj	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **is** | present | two numbers |  |  |  |  | to each; next *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **double** | imperative | you *not said here* | the smaller one |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent one=Patient |
| 3 | **add** *speech: assert* | infinitive | you *not said here* | 1 |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 1=Patient |

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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:063-doubles-and-near-doubles.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): R1-cc-next ×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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