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title: "Each of the boys has a bike" is correct, because "each" is the subj… — Grammar puzzles, part one · tree and pragmatics
description: "Each of the boys has a bike" is correct, because "each" is the subject and means one at a time. Who acts: Each. A sentence of the lesson «Grammar puzzles, part one» of the language course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grammar puzzles, part one, sentence 10

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"Each of the boys has a bike" is correct, because "each" is the subject and means one at a time.

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**Who acts:** Each · **What happens:** have, be, mean · **To what, where:** bike, subject, one · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Grammar puzzles, part one» of the language 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 (Each), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:language:011-grammar-puzzles-part-one.lesson:10
# text = "Each of the boys has a bike" is correct, because "each" is the subject and means one at a time.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = language
# lesson = 011-grammar-puzzles-part-one.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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
2	Each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	csubj	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	bike	bike	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	correct	correct	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
13	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct
15	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:det
16	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	subject	subject	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	advcl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
22	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	obj	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=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 | **have** *in a quote* | present | Each | a bike |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bike=Patient |
| 2 | **be** *speech: disagree* | present |  |  |  |  |  | correct *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present | each | the subject |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **mean** | present | each *not said here* | one |  |  | at a time |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Topic |

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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:language:011-grammar-puzzles-part-one.lesson:10`.

**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 ×3, 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/).

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