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title: To count the teeth of a family, count the grown-ups' teeth and the c… — Teeth of grown-ups and children · tree and pragmatics
description: To count the teeth of a family, count the grown-ups' teeth and the children's teeth and add them. Who acts: you. A sentence of the lesson «Teeth of grown-ups and children» of the lessons course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Teeth of grown-ups and children, sentence 2

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To count the teeth of a family, count the grown-ups' teeth and the children's teeth and add them.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** count, grow, add · **To what, where:** teeth

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Teeth of grown-ups and children» 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:211-teeth-of-grown-ups-and-children.lesson:2
# text = To count the teeth of a family, count the grown-ups' teeth and the children's teeth and add them.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = lessons
# lesson = 211-teeth-of-grown-ups-and-children.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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	count	count	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	count	count	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:det
11	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	_
13	ups	up	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	'	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	's	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	add	add	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
23	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=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** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | the teeth of a family |  |  |  |  | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Theme |
| 2 | **count** | imperative | you *not said here* | the grown ups's teeth and the children's teeth |  |  |  |  | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Theme |
| 3 | **grow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **add** *speech: assert* | infinitive | you *not said here* | teeth *= tooth* |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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:211-teeth-of-grown-ups-and-children.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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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