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title: For two dates in the same month, take the smaller date from the bigg… — How long since? Counting back · tree and pragmatics
description: For two dates in the same month, take the smaller date from the bigger: 16 − 2 = 14 days. Who acts: you. A sentence of the lesson «How long since? Counting back» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# How long since? Counting back, sentence 18

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For two dates in the same month, take the smaller date from the bigger: 16 − 2 = 14 days.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** take · **To what, where:** smaller date, bigger

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This is a sentence of the lesson «How long since? Counting back» of the world 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 (you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:108-how-long-since-counting-back.lesson:18
# text = For two dates in the same month, take the smaller date from the bigger: 16 − 2 = 14 days.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 108-how-long-since-counting-back.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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	dates	date	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
9	take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	smaller	small	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	12	amod	_	_
12	date	date	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	obl	_	_
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
17	16	16	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	parataxis	_	_
18	−	−	SYM	SYM	_	22	case	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=22:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
19	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
20	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	21	case	_	_
21	14	14	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:nmod
22	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=imp

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | imperative | you *not said here* | the smaller date |  | the bigger |  | for two dates in the same month | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent date=Theme for date=Asset from big=Source |

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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:world:108-how-long-since-counting-back.lesson:18`.

**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, R8-pos-agree ×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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