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title: Sometimes a story hides one number: what there was at first, or how… — The missing number in a story · tree and pragmatics
description: Sometimes a story hides one number: what there was at first, or how many were added or taken. Who acts: story. A sentence of the lesson «The missing number in a story» of the lessons course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The missing number in a story, sentence 0

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Sometimes a story hides one number: what there was at first, or how many were added or taken.

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**Who acts:** story · **What happens:** hide, be, add, take · **To what, where:** one number, many

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The missing number in a story» 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 (story), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:lessons:125-the-missing-number.lesson:0
# text = Sometimes a story hides one number: what there was at first, or how many were added or taken.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = lessons
# lesson = 125-the-missing-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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	4	advmod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	hides	hide	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
8	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	appos	_	_
9	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	10	expl	_	_
10	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:acl:relcl|HaikuPos=AUX:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	10	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
16	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	added	add	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
19	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	conj	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **hide** | present | a story | one number |  |  |  | sometimes *property* | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Patient |
| 2 | **be** | past |  |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at first=Location |
| 3 | **add** *speech: assert* | past · passive |  | many |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **take** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: 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:125-the-missing-number.lesson:0`.

**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): R8-pos-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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