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title: If Ella has 3 brothers and each brother has 1 sister, that sister is… — Olympiad: everyday reasoning ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: If Ella has 3 brothers and each brother has 1 sister, that sister is Ella, so there are 4 children. Who acts: Ella, brother, sister, 4 children. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: everyday reasoning ★★★» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# Olympiad: everyday reasoning ★★★, sentence 16

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If Ella has 3 brothers and each brother has 1 sister, that sister is Ella, so there are 4 children.

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**Who acts:** Ella, brother, sister, 4 children · **What happens:** have, be · **To what, where:** 3 brothers, 1 sister, Ella

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: everyday reasoning ★★★» 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 (Ella, brother, sister, 4 children), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:194-olympiad-everyday-reasoning.lesson:16
# text = If Ella has 3 brothers and each brother has 1 sister, that sister is Ella, so there are 4 children.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 194-olympiad-everyday-reasoning.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, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	Ella	Ella	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
8	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	det	_	_
14	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	Ella	Ella	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
19	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	20	expl	_	_
20	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:conj
21	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Ella | 3 brothers |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Patient |
| 2 | **have** | present | each brother | 1 sister |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sister=Patient |
| 3 | **is a** | present | that sister | Ella |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **does** | present | 4 children |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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:194-olympiad-everyday-reasoning.lesson:16`.

**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, R7-rel-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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