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title: Counting the colours apart gives the same: 3 × 4 + 3 × 2 = 12 + 6 =… — Brackets in a story: first the group, then the g… · tree and pragmatics
description: Counting the colours apart gives the same: 3 × 4 + 3 × 2 = 12 + 6 = 18. Who acts: Counting. A sentence of the lesson «Brackets in a story: first the group, then the groups» of the lessons course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Brackets in a story: first the group, then the groups, sentence 4

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Counting the colours apart gives the same: 3 × 4 + 3 × 2 = 12 + 6 = 18.

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**Who acts:** Counting · **What happens:** count, give · **To what, where:** colours, same

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Brackets in a story: first the group, then the groups» 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 (Counting), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:lessons:137-brackets-as-stories.lesson:4
# text = Counting the colours apart gives the same: 3 × 4 + 3 × 2 = 12 + 6 = 18.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = lessons
# lesson = 137-brackets-as-stories.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	Counting	count	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	csubj	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	colours	colour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	apart	apart	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:advmod
5	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	obj	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
9	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	_
10	×	×	SYM	SYM	_	9	nmod:unmarked	_	_
11	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	flat	_	_
12	+	+	SYM	SYM	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	appos	_	_
14	×	×	SYM	SYM	_	13	nmod:unmarked	_	_
15	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	flat	_	_
16	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	17	case	_	_
17	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nmod	_	_
18	+	+	SYM	SYM	_	19	cc	_	_
19	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	conj	_	_
20	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	21	case	_	_
21	18	18	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	nmod	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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** | gerund |  | the colours |  |  |  | apart *property* | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colour=Theme |
| 2 | **give** | present | Counting | the same |  |  |  | 3 = 12 *obl* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent same=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:137-brackets-as-stories.lesson:4`.

**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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