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title: So count the gaps, one fewer than the pieces or posts. 5 posts 2 m a… — Cuts, posts and floors: the gaps between · tree and pragmatics
description: So count the gaps, one fewer than the pieces or posts. 5 posts 2 m apart: 4 gaps, 2 + 2 + 2 + 2 = 8 m from the first post to the last. Who acts: you. A sentence of the lesson «Cuts, posts and floors: the gaps between» of the lessons course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pr
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# Cuts, posts and floors: the gaps between, sentence 2

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So count the gaps, one fewer than the pieces or posts. 5 posts 2 m apart: 4 gaps, 2 + 2 + 2 + 2 = 8 m from the first post to the last.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** count · **To what, where:** gaps

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Cuts, posts and floors: the gaps between» 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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:lessons:128-cuts-posts-and-floors.lesson:2
# text = So count the gaps, one fewer than the pieces or posts. 5 posts 2 m apart: 4 gaps, 2 + 2 + 2 + 2 = 8 m from the first post to the last.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = lessons
# lesson = 128-cuts-posts-and-floors.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): R5-strong ×1
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	count	count	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	gaps	gap	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nsubj	_	_
7	fewer	few	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:parataxis
8	than	than	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	posts	post	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
14	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	posts	post	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
16	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	m	m	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod:unmarked	_	_
18	apart	apart	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
19	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
20	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	gaps	gap	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	27	compound	_	_
24	+	+	SYM	SYM	_	25	cc	_	_
25	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	conj	_	_
26	+	+	SYM	SYM	_	27	cc	_	_
27	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	30	nsubj	_	_
28	+	+	SYM	SYM	_	29	cc	_	_
29	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
30	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	2	parataxis	_	_
31	8	8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	32	nummod	_	_
32	m	m	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl:unmarked	_	_
33	from	from	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	36	amod	_	_
36	post	post	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
37	to	to	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	nmod	_	_
40	.	.	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 | **count** | imperative | you *not said here* | the gaps |  |  |  | 4 gaps *obl* | tree rules |

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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:128-cuts-posts-and-floors.lesson:2`.

**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): R5-strong ×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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