--- title: An age gap between two people never changes: if Ruby is 9 and her br… — Birthdays, ages and "how many sleeps" · tree and pragmatics description: An age gap between two people never changes: if Ruby is 9 and her brother 6, the gap is always 3 years. Who acts: age gap, Ruby, gap. A sentence of the lesson «Birthdays, ages and "how many sleeps"» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/114-birthdays-ages-and-how-many-sleeps/17/) [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/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/) / [Birthdays, ages and "how many sleeps"](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/114-birthdays-ages-and-how-many-sleeps/) / 17 # Birthdays, ages and "how many sleeps", sentence 17 An age gap between two people never changes: if Ruby is 9 and her brother 6, the gap is always 3 years. **Who acts:** age gap, Ruby, gap · **What happens:** not change, be · **To what, where:** 9, 3 years This is a sentence of the lesson «Birthdays, ages and "how many sleeps"» 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 (age gap, Ruby, gap), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:114-birthdays-ages-and-how-many-sleeps.lesson:17 # text = An age gap between two people never changes: if Ruby is 9 and her brother 6, the gap is always 3 years. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 114-birthdays-ages-and-how-many-sleeps.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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 An a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 age age NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 gap gap NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 4 between between ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ _ 6 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nmod _ _ 7 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 8 advmod _ _ 8 changes change VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 10 if if SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 11 Ruby Ruby PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 13 9 9 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 8 advcl _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 17 6 6 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 13 flat _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 gap gap NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 21 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 22 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 23 advmod _ _ 23 3 3 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 24 nummod _ _ 24 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 parataxis _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **change** | present | a age gap between two people | | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is a** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | Ruby | 9 and Ruby's brother | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **is a** | present | the gap | 3 years | | | | | tree rules | 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:world:114-birthdays-ages-and-how-many-sleeps.lesson:17`. **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): R6-punct-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/). - ← previous: [Birthdays, ages and "how many sleeps", 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/114-birthdays-ages-and-how-many-sleeps/16/) - next →: [Birthdays, ages and "how many sleeps", 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/114-birthdays-ages-and-how-many-sleeps/18/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/114-birthdays-ages-and-how-many-sleeps/)