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title: To find the whole, add the two parts: 12 boys and 9 girls make 12 +… — Two parts and the whole · tree and pragmatics
description: To find the whole, add the two parts: 12 boys and 9 girls make 12 + 9 = 21 children. Who acts: 12 boys. A sentence of the lesson «Two parts and the whole» of the lessons course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Two parts and the whole, sentence 1

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To find the whole, add the two parts: 12 boys and 9 girls make 12 + 9 = 21 children.

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**Who acts:** 12 boys · **What happens:** find, add, make · **To what, where:** whole, two parts, 21 children

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Two parts and the whole» 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 (12 boys), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:lessons:075-part-part-whole.lesson:1
# text = To find the whole, add the two parts: 12 boys and 9 girls make 12 + 9 = 21 children.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = lessons
# lesson = 075-part-part-whole.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): R7-rel-agree ×2
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	whole	whole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	add	add	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
11	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	9	9	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
16	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	compound	_	_
18	+	+	SYM	SYM	_	19	cc	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:advmod
19	9	9	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:nmod
20	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	21	case	_	_
21	21	21	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	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 | **find** | to-infinitive | 12 boys and 9 girls *not said here* | the whole |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whole=Topic |
| 2 | **add** *speech: assert* | infinitive | 12 boys and 9 girls *not said here* | the two parts |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Patient |
| 3 | **make** | present | 12 boys and 9 girls | 21 children |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Product |

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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:075-part-part-whole.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): R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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