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title: In a line, first, second, third… tell the place counted from one end. — Places in a line · tree and pragmatics
description: In a line, first, second, third… tell the place counted from one end. A sentence of the lesson «Places in a line» of the lessons course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Places in a line, sentence 0

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In a line, first, second, third… tell the place counted from one end.

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**What happens:** tell, count · **To what, where:** place, one end · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Places in a line» 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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:lessons:069-places-in-a-line.lesson:0
# text = In a line, first, second, third… tell the place counted from one end.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = lessons
# lesson = 069-places-in-a-line.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 ×2
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	9	advmod	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	second	second	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	9	advmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct
9	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	0	root	_	_
10	…	…	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
11	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	counted	count	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9: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 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive |  | the place |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent place=Recipient |
| 2 | **count** | participle |  | the place *not said here* |  |  | from one end |  | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |

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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:069-places-in-a-line.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): R6-punct-agree ×2. **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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