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title: He has 5 boxes of 8 crayons and gives away 12 crayons. — Two steps and a number you do not need · tree and pragmatics
description: He has 5 boxes of 8 crayons and gives away 12 crayons. Who acts: He. A sentence of the lesson «Two steps and a number you do not need» of the lessons course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Two steps and a number you do not need, sentence 3

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He has 5 boxes of 8 crayons and gives away 12 crayons.

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**Who acts:** He · **What happens:** have, give away · **To what, where:** 5 boxes, 12 crayons

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Two steps and a number you do not need» 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 (He), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:lessons:118-distracting-number.lesson:3
# text = He has 5 boxes of 8 crayons and gives away 12 crayons.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = lessons
# lesson = 118-distracting-number.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	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	boxes	box	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	8	8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	crayons	crayon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
10	away	away	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:compound:prt
11	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	crayons	crayon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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** | present | He | 5 boxes of 8 crayons |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent box=Patient |
| 2 | **give away** | present | He *not said here* | 12 crayons |  |  |  | away *property* | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent crayon=Theme |

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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:118-distracting-number.lesson:3`.

**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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