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title: To find a birth year, take the age from the year of that birthday: 2… — Birthdays, ages and "how many sleeps" · tree and pragmatics
description: To find a birth year, take the age from the year of that birthday: 2026 − 80 = 1946. Who acts: you. 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 clause.
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# Birthdays, ages and "how many sleeps", sentence 19

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To find a birth year, take the age from the year of that birthday: 2026 − 80 = 1946.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** find, take · **To what, where:** age

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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 (you), 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:19
# text = To find a birth year, take the age from the year of that birthday: 2026 − 80 = 1946.
# 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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	find	find	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	birth	birth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
15	birthday	birthday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
17	2026	2026	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	appos	_	_
18	−	−	SYM	SYM	_	19	case	_	_
19	80	80	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	nmod	_	_
20	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	21	case	_	_
21	1946	1946	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	nmod	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2: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 | **find** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  | year |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **take** | imperative | you *not said here* | the age |  |  | year |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent age=Theme |

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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:114-birthdays-ages-and-how-many-sleeps.lesson:19`.

**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 ×2, 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/).

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