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title: The five-finger test: on one page, count the words you can't read or… — Reading for pleasure and the reading book at home · tree and pragmatics
description: The five-finger test: on one page, count the words you can't read or don't know; four or five means the book is too hard to read alone for now. Who acts: you, four, book. A sentence of the lesson «Reading for pleasure and the reading book at home» of the english course of Mova's primary school with 
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# Reading for pleasure and the reading book at home, sentence 20

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The five-finger test: on one page, count the words you can't read or don't know; four or five means the book is too hard to read alone for now.

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**Who acts:** you, four, book · **What happens:** count, not read, not know, mean, be, read · **To what, where:** words, one page · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Reading for pleasure and the reading book at home» of the english 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, four, book), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:english:016-reading-for-pleasure-and-the-reading-book-at-home.lesson:20
# text = The five-finger test: on one page, count the words you can't read or don't know; four or five means the book is too hard to read alone for now.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = english
# lesson = 016-reading-for-pleasure-and-the-reading-book-at-home.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): R1-cc-next ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	_
4	finger	finger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	test	test	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	page	page	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	count	count	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	read	read	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	acl:relcl	_	_
18	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	do	do	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	aux	_	_
20	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nsubj	_	_
24	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=23:cc
25	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	conj	_	_
26	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
29	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
30	too	too	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	ccomp	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	read	read	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	xcomp	_	_
34	alone	alone	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	33	advmod	_	_
35	for	for	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	now	now	ADV	RB	_	33	obl	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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** | infinitive |  | the words |  | one page |  |  | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **read** | can | you | the words *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Topic |
| 3 | **not** **know** | infinitive · do-support | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **mean** | present | four |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** | present | the book |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **read** | to-infinitive | the book *not said here* |  |  |  |  | alone *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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): R1-cc-next ×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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