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title: Count toes on a hen and you get four, three forward and one back, un… — Farm animals by numbers: stomachs, hooves, toes,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Count toes on a hen and you get four, three forward and one back, unless she is a fluffy Silkie with five. Who acts: you, sow. A sentence of the lesson «Farm animals by numbers: stomachs, hooves, toes, eggs and litres» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the p
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# Farm animals by numbers: stomachs, hooves, toes, eggs and litres, sentence 5

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Count toes on a hen and you get four, three forward and one back, unless she is a fluffy Silkie with five.

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**Who acts:** you, sow · **What happens:** count, get, be · **To what, where:** toes, four, fluffy Silkie

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Farm animals by numbers: stomachs, hooves, toes, eggs and litres» 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, sow), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:350-farm-animals-by-numbers-stomachs-hooves-toes-eggs-and-litres.lesson:5
# text = Count toes on a hen and you get four, three forward and one back, unless she is a fluffy Silkie with five.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 350-farm-animals-by-numbers-stomachs-hooves-toes-eggs-and-litres.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 ×1
1	Count	count	VERB	VB	_	0	root	_	_
2	toes	toe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	hen	hen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj
9	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	obj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	conj	_	_
12	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	conj	_	_
15	back	back	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
17	unless	unless	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
18	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	fluffy	fluffy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	Silkie	silkie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	advcl	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nmod	_	_
25	.	.	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* | toes |  |  |  | on a hen | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toe=Theme |
| 2 | **get** | present | you | four |  |  |  | forward *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer four=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is a** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | sow | a fluffy Silkie |  |  |  | with five | tree rules |

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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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**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 ×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.

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