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title: So the alphabet has 26 − 5 = 21 consonants. — Letters, colours and points · tree and pragmatics
description: So the alphabet has 26 − 5 = 21 consonants. Who acts: alphabet. A sentence of the lesson «Letters, colours and points» of the lessons course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Letters, colours and points, sentence 2

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So the alphabet has 26 − 5 = 21 consonants.

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**Who acts:** alphabet · **What happens:** have · **To what, where:** 21 consonants

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Letters, colours and points» 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 (alphabet), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:lessons:230-letters-colours-and-points.lesson:2
# text = So the alphabet has 26 − 5 = 21 consonants.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = lessons
# lesson = 230-letters-colours-and-points.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	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	alphabet	alphabet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	26	26	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	flat	_	_
6	−	−	SYM	SYM	_	9	flat	_	_
7	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	flat	_	_
8	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	9	flat	_	_
9	21	21	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	consonants	consonant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **have** | present | the alphabet | 21 consonants |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent consonant=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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**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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