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title: Adding and then taking away gives the same as taking away and then a… — Two steps: some come, some go · tree and pragmatics
description: Adding and then taking away gives the same as taking away and then adding, so 12 - 7 + 5 = 10 too. Who acts: Adding. A sentence of the lesson «Two steps: some come, some go» of the lessons course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Two steps: some come, some go, sentence 2

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Adding and then taking away gives the same as taking away and then adding, so 12 - 7 + 5 = 10 too.

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**Who acts:** Adding · **What happens:** add, take away, give · **To what, where:** same

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Two steps: some come, some go» 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 (Adding), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:lessons:078-two-steps.lesson:2
# text = Adding and then taking away gives the same as taking away and then adding, so 12 - 7 + 5 = 10 too.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = lessons
# lesson = 078-two-steps.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	Adding	add	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	csubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
3	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
4	taking	take	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	conj	_	_
5	away	away	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	obj	_	_
9	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
11	away	away	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
14	adding	add	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	conj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	parataxis	_	_
18	-	-	SYM	SYM	ExtPos=ADP	19	case	_	_
19	7	7	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	nmod	_	_
20	+	+	SYM	SYM	_	21	cc	_	_
21	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	conj	_	_
22	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	23	case	_	_
23	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	nmod	_	_
24	too	too	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **add** *speech: assert* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **take away** | gerund |  |  |  |  | then | away *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **give** | present | Adding | the same |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent same=Theme |
| 4 | **take away** | gerund | Adding *not said here* |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **add** *speech: assert* | gerund | Adding *not said here* |  |  |  | then |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=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:078-two-steps.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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