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title: When things are put in pairs, every pair has 2. — Pairs and the one left alone · tree and pragmatics
description: When things are put in pairs, every pair has 2. Who acts: pair. A sentence of the lesson «Pairs and the one left alone» of the lessons course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Pairs and the one left alone, sentence 0

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When things are put in pairs, every pair has 2.

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**Who acts:** pair · **What happens:** put, have · **To what, where:** things, pairs, 2

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Pairs and the one left alone» 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 (pair), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:lessons:068-pairs-and-odd-ones.lesson:0
# text = When things are put in pairs, every pair has 2.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = lessons
# lesson = 068-pairs-and-odd-ones.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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
2	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	pairs	pair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
9	pair	pair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj
11	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	obj	_	_
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4: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 | **put** | present · passive |  | things |  | pairs |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in pair=Destination |
| 2 | **have** | present | every pair | 2 |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 2=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:068-pairs-and-odd-ones.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 ×2, 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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