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title: Count the rows on a cob and you nearly always get an even number. — Rice, maize and potatoes: the plants that feed t… · tree and pragmatics
description: Count the rows on a cob and you nearly always get an even number. Who acts: you. A sentence of the lesson «Rice, maize and potatoes: the plants that feed the world» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Rice, maize and potatoes: the plants that feed the world, sentence 5

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Count the rows on a cob and you nearly always get an even number.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** count, get · **To what, where:** rows, cob, even number

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Rice, maize and potatoes: the plants that feed the world» of the biology 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:biology:345-rice-maize-and-potatoes-the-plants-that-feed-the-world.lesson:5
# text = Count the rows on a cob and you nearly always get an even number.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 345-rice-maize-and-potatoes-the-plants-that-feed-the-world.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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Count	count	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	rows	row	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	cob	cob	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
9	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
10	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	11	advmod	_	_
11	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=1:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	even	even	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
14	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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 | **count** | imperative | you *not said here* | the rows |  | a cob |  |  | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent row=Theme |
| 2 | **get** | present | you | a even number |  |  |  | always, nearly *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer number=Stimulus |

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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:biology:345-rice-maize-and-potatoes-the-plants-that-feed-the-world.lesson:5`.

**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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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