--- title: The same sum counts handshakes: of 5 children, the first shakes hand… — A staircase of cubes and handshakes · tree and pragmatics description: The same sum counts handshakes: of 5 children, the first shakes hands with 4 others, the next with 3 new ones, then 2, then 1, so 4 + 3 + 2 + 1 = 10. Who acts: same sum, first. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (same sum, first), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:lessons:130-staircase-and-handshakes.lesson:1 # text = The same sum counts handshakes: of 5 children, the first shakes hands with 4 others, the next with 3 new ones, then 2, then 1, so 4 + 3 + 2 + 1 = 10. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = lessons # lesson = 130-staircase-and-handshakes.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 sum sum NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 counts count VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 handshakes handshake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 5 5 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 9 nummod _ _ 9 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 13 nsubj _ _ 13 shakes shake VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 14 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 15 with with ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 4 4 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 17 nummod _ _ 17 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ _ 21 with with ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 3 3 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 24 nummod _ _ 23 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 ones one NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 26 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 27 advmod _ _ 27 2 2 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 conj _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 30 advmod _ _ 30 1 1 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 27 conj _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 32 so so ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 33 4 4 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 39 nmod:unmarked _ _ 34 + + SYM SYM _ 35 cc _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=35:advmod 35 3 3 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 33 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=33:nmod 36 + + SYM SYM _ 37 cc _ _ 37 2 2 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 33 conj _ _ 38 + + SYM SYM _ 39 cc _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=39:advmod 39 1 1 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 conj _ _ 40 = = SYM SYM _ 41 case _ _ 41 10 10 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 39 nmod _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **count** | present | the same sum | handshakes | | | | of 5 children | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent handshake=Theme | | 2 | **shake** | present | the first | hands | | | | with 4 others | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient with other=Co-Patient | 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. **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:130-staircase-and-handshakes.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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/). - ← previous: [A staircase of cubes and handshakes, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/130-staircase-and-handshakes/0/) - next →: [A staircase of cubes and handshakes, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/130-staircase-and-handshakes/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/130-staircase-and-handshakes/)