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title: In France people usually start counting on the thumb: thumb is one,… — Numbers 0 to 20 · tree and pragmatics
description: In France people usually start counting on the thumb: thumb is one, thumb and pointing finger are two. Who acts: people, thumb. A sentence of the lesson «Numbers 0 to 20» of the french course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Numbers 0 to 20, sentence 8

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In France people usually start counting on the thumb: thumb is one, thumb and pointing finger are two.

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**Who acts:** people, thumb · **What happens:** start, count, be, point · **To what, where:** France, one, two

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Numbers 0 to 20» of the french 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 (people, thumb), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:french:006-numbers-0-to-20.lesson:8
# text = In France people usually start counting on the thumb: thumb is one, thumb and pointing finger are two.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = french
# lesson = 006-numbers-0-to-20.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, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	France	France	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:compound
3	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:obl
4	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	start	start	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	counting	count	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	xcomp	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	thumb	thumb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
11	thumb	thumb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	parataxis	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	thumb	thumb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	pointing	point	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
18	finger	finger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
19	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	conj	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **start** | present | people | France |  |  |  | usually *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **count** | gerund | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  | on the thumb | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=Agent on thumb=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | present | thumb | one |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **point** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is a** | present | thumb and pointing finger | two |  |  |  |  | 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:french:006-numbers-0-to-20.lesson:8`.

**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, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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