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title: When cards are dealt, each player gets the same number; the cards de… — A deck of cards · tree and pragmatics
description: When cards are dealt, each player gets the same number; the cards dealt are players × cards each. Who acts: player, cards. A sentence of the lesson «A deck of cards» of the lessons course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# A deck of cards, sentence 1

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When cards are dealt, each player gets the same number; the cards dealt are players × cards each.

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**Who acts:** player, cards · **What happens:** deal, get, be · **To what, where:** cards, same number, players

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This is a sentence of the lesson «A deck of cards» 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 (player, cards), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:lessons:237-a-deck-of-cards.lesson:1
# text = When cards are dealt, each player gets the same number; the cards dealt are players × cards each.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = lessons
# lesson = 237-a-deck-of-cards.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	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
2	cards	card	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	dealt	deal	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	advcl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
7	player	player	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	cards	card	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
15	dealt	deal	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
16	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	players	player	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	parataxis	_	_
18	×	×	SYM	SYM	_	19	amod	_	_
19	cards	card	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	_
20	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	nmod:unmarked	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **deal** | present · passive |  | cards |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **get** | present | each player | the same number |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer number=Stimulus |
| 3 | **deal** | participle |  | the cards *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | present | the cards | players and × cards  each |  |  |  |  | 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:237-a-deck-of-cards.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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