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title: First count the people, then take 2 things for each person. — A pair for each person · tree and pragmatics
description: First count the people, then take 2 things for each person. Who acts: you. A sentence of the lesson «A pair for each person» of the lessons course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# A pair for each person, sentence 1

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First count the people, then take 2 things for each person.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** count, take · **To what, where:** people, 2 things

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This is a sentence of the lesson «A pair for each person» 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:213-a-pair-for-each-person.lesson:1
# text = First count the people, then take 2 things for each person.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = lessons
# lesson = 213-a-pair-for-each-person.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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	First	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	2	advmod	_	_
2	count	count	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
7	take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
8	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
12	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	.	.	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 | **count** | imperative | you *not said here* | the people |  |  |  | first *property* | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme |
| 2 | **take** | infinitive |  | 2 things |  |  | then | for each person | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent thing=Theme for person=Beneficiary |

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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:213-a-pair-for-each-person.lesson:1`.

**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): 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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