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title: In snakes and ladders, count from the next square, not the one you a… — Sharing toys and playing board games fairly · tree and pragmatics
description: In snakes and ladders, count from the next square, not the one you are on. Who acts: you. A sentence of the lesson «Sharing toys and playing board games fairly» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Sharing toys and playing board games fairly, sentence 21

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In snakes and ladders, count from the next square, not the one you are on.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** count, be · **To what, where:** next square, one

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Sharing toys and playing board games fairly» of the everyday 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:everyday:242-sharing-toys-and-board-games.lesson:21
# text = In snakes and ladders, count from the next square, not the one you are on.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 242-sharing-toys-and-board-games.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): no change
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	snakes	snake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	ladders	ladder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	count	count	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	square	square	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	on	on	ADV	RB	_	14	acl:relcl	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 next square |  | in snakes and ladders | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is** | present | you | the one *not said here* |  |  |  | on *property* | 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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**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:everyday:242-sharing-toys-and-board-games.lesson:21`.

**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): no change. **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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