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title: A score is 20 in old English, so "four score and seven" (Lincoln, 18… — Numbers 70 to 100: soixante-dix and quatre-vingts · tree and pragmatics
description: A score is 20 in old English, so "four score and seven" (Lincoln, 1863) is 87. Who acts: score. A sentence of the lesson «Numbers 70 to 100: soixante-dix and quatre-vingts» of the french course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Numbers 70 to 100: soixante-dix and quatre-vingts, sentence 14

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A score is 20 in old English, so "four score and seven" (Lincoln, 1863) is 87.

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**Who acts:** score · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** 20, 87

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Numbers 70 to 100: soixante-dix and quatre-vingts» 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 (score), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:french:008-numbers-70-to-100-soixante-dix-and-quatre-vingts.lesson:14
# text = A score is 20 in old English, so "four score and seven" (Lincoln, 1863) is 87.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = french
# lesson = 008-numbers-70-to-100-soixante-dix-and-quatre-vingts.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, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	score	score	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	appos	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
11	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	score	score	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:compound
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
16	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	17	punct	_	_
17	Lincoln	lincoln	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	1863	1863	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	appos	_	_
20	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	17	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
22	87	87	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	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 | **is a** | present |  | 20 |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | a score in old English | 87 |  |  |  |  | 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:008-numbers-70-to-100-soixante-dix-and-quatre-vingts.lesson:14`.

**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, R6-punct-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/).

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