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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 (Counting, game, numbers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:041-counting-animals.lesson:0 # text = Counting an animal's parts is a real scientist's game: how many hearts, eyes, legs or teeth it has tells you how it lives, and the numbers are often stranger than any cartoon. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 041-counting-animals.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 Counting count VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 11 csubj _ _ 2 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod:poss _ _ 4 's 's PART POS _ 3 case _ _ 5 parts part NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obj _ _ 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 scientist scientist NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod:poss _ _ 10 's 's PART POS _ 9 case _ _ 11 game game NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 12 : : PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 13 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 14 advmod _ _ 14 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 hearts heart NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 appos _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 conj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 conj _ _ 20 or or CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 conj _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 acl:relcl _ _ 24 tells tell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ _ 25 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 24 iobj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:obj 26 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 28 advmod _ _ 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 lives live VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 ccomp _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 numbers number NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nsubj _ _ 33 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 cop _ _ 34 often often ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 35 stranger strange ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 11 conj _ _ 36 than than ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 38 det _ _ 38 cartoon cartoon NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **count** | gerund | | a animal's parts | | | | | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme | | 2 | **is a** | present | Counting | a real scientist's game | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **have** | present | game | many hearts and eyes and legs or teeth *not said here* | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient | | 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | | | you | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | | 5 | **live** | present | game | | | | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **is** | present | the numbers | | | | | than any cartoon; often, strange *property* | 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:biology:041-counting-animals.lesson:0`. **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/). - ← previous: [Counting animals: legs, arms, wings an…, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/40-counting-legs-arms-wings-and-tails/16/) - next →: [Counting animals: eyes, ears, hearts,…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/41-counting-animals/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/41-counting-animals/)