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title: To find how many are left, first turn the dozens into a number, then… — Dozens and spoonfuls · tree and pragmatics
description: To find how many are left, first turn the dozens into a number, then take away what was used or eaten. Who acts: you. 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 2

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To find how many are left, first turn the dozens into a number, then take away what was used or eaten.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** find, leave, turn, take away, use, eat · **To what, where:** many, dozens, number · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (you), 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:2
# text = To find how many are left, first turn the dozens into a number, then take away what was used or eaten.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
4	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	ccomp	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	9	advmod	_	_
9	turn	turn	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	dozens	dozen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	into	into	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	_
17	take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
18	away	away	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	conj	_	_
22	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	eaten	eat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	21	conj	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=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 | **find** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **leave** | present · passive |  | many |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **turn** | imperative | you *not said here* | the dozens |  | a number |  | first *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent dozen=Theme into number=Trajectory |
| 4 | **take away** | infinitive |  |  |  |  | then |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **use** | past · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 6 | **eat** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: 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:251-dozens-and-spoonfuls.lesson:2`.

**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): R6-punct-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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