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title: To count on, start at the number you have and say the next numbers,… — Counting on and counting back · tree and pragmatics
description: To count on, start at the number you have and say the next numbers, one for each step forward. Who acts: you. A sentence of the lesson «Counting on and counting back» of the lessons course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Counting on and counting back, sentence 0

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To count on, start at the number you have and say the next numbers, one for each step forward.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** count on, start, have, say · **To what, where:** number, next numbers · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Counting on and counting back» 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:061-counting-on-and-back.lesson:0
# text = To count on, start at the number you have and say the next numbers, one for each step forward.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = lessons
# lesson = 061-counting-on-and-back.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 ×4, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	count	count	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root
3	on	on	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	start	start	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	say	say	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	numbers	number	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	appos	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	det	_	_
20	step	step	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:advmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2: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 | **count on** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **start** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | the number |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 3 | **have** | present | you | the number *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Patient |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | you *not said here* | the next numbers |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent number=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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**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:061-counting-on-and-back.lesson:0`.

**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 ×4, 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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