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title: 11 people, a boat for 4: the first trip takes 4 across; each return… — Crossing the river with one boat · tree and pragmatics
description: 11 people, a boat for 4: the first trip takes 4 across; each return and trip then adds 3 more: 4, 7, 10, 11. Who acts: first trip, return. A sentence of the lesson «Crossing the river with one boat» of the lessons course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# Crossing the river with one boat, sentence 2

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11 people, a boat for 4: the first trip takes 4 across; each return and trip then adds 3 more: 4, 7, 10, 11.

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**Who acts:** first trip, return · **What happens:** take, add · **To what, where:** 4

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Crossing the river with one boat» 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 (first trip, return), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:lessons:189-boat-crossings.lesson:2
# text = 11 people, a boat for 4: the first trip takes 4 across; each return and trip then adds 3 more: 4, 7, 10, 11.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = lessons
# lesson = 189-boat-crossings.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, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	11	11	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nmod	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	11	amod	_	_
11	trip	trip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	takes	take	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
13	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	obj	_	_
14	across	across	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
16	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	det	_	_
17	return	return	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	trip	trip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
20	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	21	advmod	_	_
21	adds	add	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
22	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	25	advmod	_	_
24	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
25	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	obl	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	7	7	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	25	flat	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=25:punct
29	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	25	flat	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=29:punct
31	11	11	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	25	flat	_	_
32	.	.	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 | **take** | present | the first trip | 4 |  |  |  | across *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 4=Theme |
| 2 | **add** *speech: assert* | present | each return and trip | 4 |  |  | then |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |

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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:189-boat-crossings.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, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-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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