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title: So the slices needed are 2 for every sandwich: first count the sandw… — Recipes and sandwiches · tree and pragmatics
description: So the slices needed are 2 for every sandwich: first count the sandwiches, then double them. Who acts: slices. A sentence of the lesson «Recipes and sandwiches» of the lessons course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Recipes and sandwiches, sentence 1

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So the slices needed are 2 for every sandwich: first count the sandwiches, then double them.

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**Who acts:** slices · **What happens:** need, be, count, double · **To what, where:** slices, 2, sandwiches

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Recipes and sandwiches» 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 (slices), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:lessons:252-recipes-and-sandwiches.lesson:1
# text = So the slices needed are 2 for every sandwich: first count the sandwiches, then double them.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = lessons
# lesson = 252-recipes-and-sandwiches.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	So	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	slices	slice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	needed	need	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
9	sandwich	sandwich	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
11	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	12	advmod	_	_
12	count	count	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	sandwiches	sandwich	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct
16	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	_
17	double	double	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **need** | participle |  | the slices *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the slices | 2 |  |  |  | for every sandwich | tree rules |
| 3 | **count** | infinitive |  | the sandwiches |  |  |  | first *property* | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sandwich=Theme |
| 4 | **double** | infinitive |  | slices *= slice* |  |  | then |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=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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**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:252-recipes-and-sandwiches.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): 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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