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title: To be sure of 4 socks of one colour from red, blue and white socks:… — Sure of several of the same colour · tree and pragmatics
description: To be sure of 4 socks of one colour from red, blue and white socks: 3 + 3 + 3 = 9 can still fail, so 10 are sure. Who acts: 3, 10. A sentence of the lesson «Sure of several of the same colour» of the lessons course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Sure of several of the same colour, sentence 2

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To be sure of 4 socks of one colour from red, blue and white socks: 3 + 3 + 3 = 9 can still fail, so 10 are sure.

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**Who acts:** 3, 10 · **What happens:** be, fail

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Sure of several of the same colour» 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 (3, 10), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:lessons:181-pigeonhole-same-colour.lesson:2
# text = To be sure of 4 socks of one colour from red, blue and white socks: 3 + 3 + 3 = 9 can still fail, so 10 are sure.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = lessons
# lesson = 181-pigeonhole-same-colour.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, R7-rel-agree ×4
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	3	mark	_	_
2	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	cop	_	_
3	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	socks	sock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
11	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
16	socks	sock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:nmod
17	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
18	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	27	nsubj	_	_
19	+	+	SYM	SYM	_	20	cc	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:advmod
20	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:nmod
21	+	+	SYM	SYM	_	22	cc	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:advmod
22	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:nmod
23	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	24	case	_	_
24	9	9	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	nmod	_	_
25	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	still	still	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	fail	fail	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	so	so	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
30	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	32	nsubj	_	_
31	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
32	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | of 4 socks of one colour from red socks; sure *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **fail** | can | 3 |  |  |  | still |  | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | present | 10 |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | 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:181-pigeonhole-same-colour.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, R7-rel-agree ×4. **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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