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title: Count the knuckles and the gaps between them on your fist: every knu… — Days in the months · tree and pragmatics
description: Count the knuckles and the gaps between them on your fist: every knuckle month has 31 days. Who acts: you, knuckle month. A sentence of the lesson «Days in the months» of the lessons course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Days in the months, sentence 1

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Count the knuckles and the gaps between them on your fist: every knuckle month has 31 days.

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**Who acts:** you, knuckle month · **What happens:** count, have · **To what, where:** knuckles, fist

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Days in the months» 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, knuckle month), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:lessons:223-days-in-the-months.lesson:1
# text = Count the knuckles and the gaps between them on your fist: every knuckle month has 31 days.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = lessons
# lesson = 223-days-in-the-months.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): no change
1	Count	count	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	knuckles	knuckle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	gaps	gap	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
7	between	between	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nmod	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	fist	fist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
13	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	det	_	_
14	knuckle	knuckle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
17	31	31	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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 knuckles and the gaps between gaps |  | your fist |  |  | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knuckle=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | present | every knuckle month |  |  |  | day |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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:223-days-in-the-months.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): no change. **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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