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title: A pair is two things that go together: a pair of socks is 2 socks, a… — Pairs and odd socks · tree and pragmatics
description: A pair is two things that go together: a pair of socks is 2 socks, a pair of shoes is 2 shoes. Who acts: pair, two things. A sentence of the lesson «Pairs and odd socks» of the lessons course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Pairs and odd socks, sentence 0

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A pair is two things that go together: a pair of socks is 2 socks, a pair of shoes is 2 shoes.

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**Who acts:** pair, two things · **What happens:** be, go together · **To what, where:** two things, 2 socks, 2 shoes

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Pairs and odd socks» 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 (pair, two things), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:lessons:212-pairs-and-odd-socks.lesson:0
# text = A pair is two things that go together: a pair of socks is 2 socks, a pair of shoes is 2 shoes.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = lessons
# lesson = 212-pairs-and-odd-socks.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 ×2
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	pair	pair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	together	together	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	pair	pair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	socks	sock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	socks	sock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	pair	pair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:conj
25	.	.	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 | **is a** | present | a pair | two things |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go together** | present | two things |  |  |  |  | together *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | present | a pair of socks | 2 socks |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | present | a pair of shoes | 2 shoes |  |  |  |  | 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:212-pairs-and-odd-socks.lesson:0`.

**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 ×2. **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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