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title: 3 boxes of 8 pencils and 5 loose pencils make 3 × 8 = 24, then 24 +… — Multiply, then add or take away · tree and pragmatics
description: 3 boxes of 8 pencils and 5 loose pencils make 3 × 8 = 24, then 24 + 5 = 29 pencils. Who acts: 3 boxes. 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.
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# Multiply, then add or take away, sentence 1

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3 boxes of 8 pencils and 5 loose pencils make 3 × 8 = 24, then 24 + 5 = 29 pencils.

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**Who acts:** 3 boxes · **What happens:** make · **To what, where:** 8

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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 (3 boxes), 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:1
# text = 3 boxes of 8 pencils and 5 loose pencils make 3 × 8 = 24, then 24 + 5 = 29 pencils.
# 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): R5-strong ×1
1	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	boxes	box	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	8	8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	pencils	pencil	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
8	loose	loose	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	pencils	pencil	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
10	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	×	×	SYM	SYM	_	10	obj	_	_
13	8	8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	obl	_	_
14	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	15	dep	_	_
15	24	24	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	nmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
17	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	_
18	24	24	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
19	+	+	SYM	SYM	_	20	cc	_	_
20	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	conj	_	_
21	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	22	dep	_	_
22	29	29	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:nmod
23	pencils	pencil	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | 3 boxes of 8 pencils and 5 loose pencils | 8  24 |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset ×=Beneficiary pencil=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:089-multiply-then-add.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. **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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