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title: If Tom has 4 marbles and Ann has 3 times as many, Ann has 4 × 3 = 12… — Times as many · tree and pragmatics
description: If Tom has 4 marbles and Ann has 3 times as many, Ann has 4 × 3 = 12 marbles. Who acts: Tom, Ann. A sentence of the lesson «Times as many» of the lessons course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Times as many, sentence 1

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If Tom has 4 marbles and Ann has 3 times as many, Ann has 4 × 3 = 12 marbles.

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**Who acts:** Tom, Ann · **What happens:** have · **To what, where:** 4 marbles, many, 4 ×

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Times as many» 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 (Tom, Ann), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:lessons:083-times-as-many.lesson:1
# text = If Tom has 4 marbles and Ann has 3 times as many, Ann has 4 × 3 = 12 marbles.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = lessons
# lesson = 083-times-as-many.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, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	Tom	Tom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
4	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	marbles	marble	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	Ann	Ann	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:obl:unmarked
11	as	as	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
12	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
14	Ann	Ann	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	×	×	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
19	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	20	case	_	_
20	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:nmod
21	marbles	marble	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	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** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | Tom | 4 marbles |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent marble=Patient |
| 2 | **have** | present | Ann | many |  |  | time |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **have** | present | Ann | 4 × |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:083-times-as-many.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): R5-strong ×1, 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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