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title: Find how many groups there are from the colour you know, then multip… — For every few of one, so many of another · tree and pragmatics
description: Find how many groups there are from the colour you know, then multiply for the other colour. Who acts: you, many groups. A sentence of the lesson «For every few of one, so many of another» of the lessons course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# For every few of one, so many of another, sentence 1

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Find how many groups there are from the colour you know, then multiply for the other colour.

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**Who acts:** you, many groups · **What happens:** find, be, know, multiply · **To what, where:** many groups, colour

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This is a sentence of the lesson «For every few of one, so many of another» of the lessons 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, many groups), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:lessons:115-ratio.lesson:1
# text = Find how many groups there are from the colour you know, then multiply for the other colour.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = lessons
# lesson = 115-ratio.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 ×1
1	Find	find	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
3	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	groups	group	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
5	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	6	expl	_	_
6	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
14	multiply	multiply	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:conj
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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 | **find** | imperative | you *not said here* | many groups |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent group=Topic |
| 2 | **be** | present | many groups *not said here* |  |  | the colour; there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **know** | present | you | the colour *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer colour=Stimulus |
| 4 | **multiply** | infinitive |  |  |  |  | then | for the other colour | vn birth-28.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:lessons:115-ratio.lesson:1`.

**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 ×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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