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title: In the same month, just take the smaller date from the bigger one. — Birthdays, ages and "how many sleeps" · tree and pragmatics
description: In the same month, just take the smaller date from the bigger one. 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 2

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In the same month, just take the smaller date from the bigger one.

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

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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:2
# text = In the same month, just take the smaller date from the bigger one.
# 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): no change
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	just	just	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	smaller	small	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	10	amod	_	_
10	date	date	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	14	amod	_	_
14	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **take** | imperative | you *not said here* | the smaller date |  |  | month | from the bigger one | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent date=Theme from one=Initial\_Location |

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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:2`.

**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): no change. **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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