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title: To count the players of several teams, multiply the number of teams… — Players in a team · tree and pragmatics
description: To count the players of several teams, multiply the number of teams by the players in one team, sport by sport, and add. Who acts: you, sport. A sentence of the lesson «Players in a team» of the lessons course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Players in a team, sentence 1

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To count the players of several teams, multiply the number of teams by the players in one team, sport by sport, and add.

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**Who acts:** you, sport · **What happens:** count, multiply, add, sport · **To what, where:** players, number

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Players in a team» 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, sport), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:lessons:231-players-in-a-team.lesson:1
# text = To count the players of several teams, multiply the number of teams by the players in one team, sport by sport, and add.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = lessons
# lesson = 231-players-in-a-team.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 ×2
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	players	player	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	teams	team	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	multiply	multiply	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	teams	team	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	players	player	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	team	team	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	sport	sport	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
22	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	sport	sport	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	add	add	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=imp, act=request

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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 players of several teams |  |  |  | sport by sport *obl* | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent player=Theme |
| 2 | **multiply** | imperative | you *not said here* | the number of teams |  |  |  | by the players in one team | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent number=Theme by player=Co-Theme |
| 3 | **add** *speech: assert* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **sport** |  | sport |  |  |  |  |  | nom sport «act intransitive»: by=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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**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 ×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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