--- title: Some problems take two steps: first multiply to find the total of th… — Multiply, then add or take away · tree and pragmatics description: Some problems take two steps: first multiply to find the total of the equal groups, then add or take away. Who acts: problems. A sentence of the lesson «Multiply, then add or take away» of the lessons course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/89-multiply-then-add/0/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Lessons](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/) / [Multiply, then add or take away](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/89-multiply-then-add/) / 0 # Multiply, then add or take away, sentence 0 Some problems take two steps: first multiply to find the total of the equal groups, then add or take away. **Who acts:** problems · **What happens:** take, multiply, find, add, take away · **To what, where:** two steps, total This is a sentence of the lesson «Multiply, then add or take away» 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 (problems), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:lessons:089-multiply-then-add.lesson:0 # text = Some problems take two steps: first multiply to find the total of the equal groups, then add or take away. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = lessons # lesson = 089-multiply-then-add.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 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 det _ _ 2 problems problem NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 take take VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 steps step NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 7 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 8 advmod _ _ 8 multiply multiply VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:xcomp 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 total total NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 equal equal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 groups group NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nmod _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 19 advmod _ _ 19 add add VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 20 or or CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 take take VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 22 away away ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | present | some problems | two steps | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent step=Theme | | 2 | **multiply** | infinitive | | | | | | first *property* | vn birth-28.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **find** | to-infinitive | | the total of the equal groups | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent total=Topic | | 4 | **add** *speech: assert* | infinitive | | | | | then | | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **take away** | infinitive | | | | | | away *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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. **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:089-multiply-then-add.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): 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/). - ← previous: [So many each day, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/88-rates/2/) - next →: [Multiply, then add or take away, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/89-multiply-then-add/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/89-multiply-then-add/)