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title: Countable nouns can be counted (sweets); uncountable nouns are measu… — Nouns: the names of things, people, places and i… · tree and pragmatics
description: Countable nouns can be counted (sweets); uncountable nouns are measured (sugar, water). A sentence of the lesson «Nouns: the names of things, people, places and ideas» of the language course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Nouns: the names of things, people, places and ideas, sentence 14

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Countable nouns can be counted (sweets); uncountable nouns are measured (sugar, water).

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**What happens:** count, measure · **To what, where:** Countable nouns, uncountable nouns

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Nouns: the names of things, people, places and ideas» 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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:language:002-nouns-names-of-things-people-places-ideas.lesson:14
# text = Countable nouns can be counted (sweets); uncountable nouns are measured (sugar, water).
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = language
# lesson = 002-nouns-names-of-things-people-places-ideas.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): R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Countable	countable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	nouns	noun	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	counted	count	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	7	punct	_	_
7	sweets	sweet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:obj
8	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	7	punct	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	uncountable	uncountable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	nouns	noun	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	measured	measure	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
14	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	15	punct	_	_
15	sugar	sugar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
18	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	15	punct	_	_
19	.	.	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 | **count** | can · passive |  | Countable nouns |  |  |  |  | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **measure** | present · passive |  | uncountable nouns |  |  |  |  | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: subject=Value |

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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:002-nouns-names-of-things-people-places-ideas.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): 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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