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title: Eggs, rolls, doughnuts and cookies are often sold by the dozen, so "… — Dozens and spoonfuls · tree and pragmatics
description: Eggs, rolls, doughnuts and cookies are often sold by the dozen, so "3 dozen" means 3 × 12 = 36. Who acts: dozen, 3 dozen. A sentence of the lesson «Dozens and spoonfuls» of the lessons course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Dozens and spoonfuls, sentence 1

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Eggs, rolls, doughnuts and cookies are often sold by the dozen, so "3 dozen" means 3 × 12 = 36.

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**Who acts:** dozen, 3 dozen · **What happens:** sell, mean · **To what, where:** Eggs

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Dozens and spoonfuls» 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 (dozen, 3 dozen), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:lessons:251-dozens-and-spoonfuls.lesson:1
# text = Eggs, rolls, doughnuts and cookies are often sold by the dozen, so "3 dozen" means 3 × 12 = 36.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = lessons
# lesson = 251-dozens-and-spoonfuls.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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	rolls	roll	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	doughnuts	doughnut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	cookies	cookie	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
9	often	often	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	sold	sell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	dozen	dozen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=18:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
17	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	dozen	dozen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
20	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
21	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	×	×	SYM	SYM	_	20	obj	_	_
23	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	appos	_	_
24	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	25	punct	_	_
25	36	36	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	conj	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sell** | present · passive | the dozen | Eggs and rolls and doughnuts and cookies |  |  |  | often *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 2 | **mean** | present | 3 dozen |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ×=Topic |

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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): R8-pos-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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