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title: In a story where some things go away we know two of three numbers: h… — Some go away: how many went, how many at first · tree and pragmatics
description: In a story where some things go away we know two of three numbers: how many at first, how many went, how many are left. Who acts: things, we, many. A sentence of the lesson «Some go away: how many went, how many at first» of the lessons course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and th
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# Some go away: how many went, how many at first, sentence 0

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In a story where some things go away we know two of three numbers: how many at first, how many went, how many are left.

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**Who acts:** things, we, many · **What happens:** go away, know, go, leave · **To what, where:** two three numbers, story, many

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Some go away: how many went, how many at first» 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 (things, we, many), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:lessons:074-separate-change-start-unknown.lesson:0
# text = In a story where some things go away we know two of three numbers: how many at first, how many went, how many are left.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = lessons
# lesson = 074-separate-change-start-unknown.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): R5-strong ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
4	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	7	advmod	_	_
5	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	det	_	_
6	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
8	away	away	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:nmod
14	numbers	number	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
16	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	17	advmod	_	_
17	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	17	obl	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	22	advmod	_	_
22	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	nsubj	_	_
23	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	26	advmod	_	_
26	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	nsubj	_	_
27	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux:pass	_	_
28	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	23	parataxis	_	_
29	.	.	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 | **go away** | present | some things |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **know** | present | we | two three numbers |  | a story |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer number=Stimulus |
| 3 | **go** | past | many |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **leave** | present · passive |  | many |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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:074-separate-change-start-unknown.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): R5-strong ×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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