--- title: The gap between two people's ages stays the same: when a 5-year-old… — Sounds right, but is wrong · tree and pragmatics description: The gap between two people's ages stays the same: when a 5-year-old reaches 10, his brother who is 5 years older is 15. Who acts: gap, year old, brother. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gap, year old, brother), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:183-sounds-right-but-is-wrong.lesson:19 # text = The gap between two people's ages stays the same: when a 5-year-old reaches 10, his brother who is 5 years older is 15. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 183-sounds-right-but-is-wrong.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 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 gap gap NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 3 between between ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 4 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nmod:poss _ _ 6 's 's PART POS _ 5 case _ _ 7 ages age NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nmod _ _ 8 stays stay VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 obj _ _ 11 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 12 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 19 advmod _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 14 5 5 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 16 nummod _ _ 15 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 14 punct _ _ 16 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 17 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 16 punct _ _ 18 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 nsubj _ _ 19 reaches reach VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 advcl _ _ 20 10 10 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 19 obj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct 22 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 24 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 28 nsubj _ _ 25 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 26 5 5 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 27 nummod _ _ 27 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obl:unmarked _ _ 28 older old ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 23 acl:relcl _ _ 29 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 30 15 15 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 8 parataxis _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stay** | present | the gap between two people's ages | the same | | | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme same=Location | | 2 | **reach** | present | a year old | 10 | | | | | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent 10=Theme | | 3 | **is** | present | weight's brother | | | | year | old *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **is a** | present | weight's brother | 15 | | | | | 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:183-sounds-right-but-is-wrong.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): 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: [Sounds right, but is wrong, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/183-sounds-right-but-is-wrong/18/) - next →: [Sounds right, but is wrong, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/183-sounds-right-but-is-wrong/20/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/183-sounds-right-but-is-wrong/)