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title: If you are 4th from the front and 6th from the back, count yourself… — Places in a line · tree and pragmatics
description: If you are 4th from the front and 6th from the back, count yourself only once: 4 + 6 - 1 = 9 people stand in the line. Who acts: you, 1 people. 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 1

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If you are 4th from the front and 6th from the back, count yourself only once: 4 + 6 - 1 = 9 people stand in the line.

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**Who acts:** you, 1 people · **What happens:** be, count, stand · **To what, where:** front, yourself, line

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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: who acts (you, 1 people), 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:1
# text = If you are 4th from the front and 6th from the back, count yourself only once: 4 + 6 - 1 = 9 people stand in the line.
# 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 ×1
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	4th	4th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	14	advcl	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	6th	6th	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	7	conj	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	count	count	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	14	obj	_	_
16	only	only	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	14	advmod	_	_
18	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
19	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
20	+	+	SYM	SYM	_	21	cc	_	_
21	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	conj	_	_
22	-	-	SYM	SYM	ExtPos=ADP	23	case	_	_
23	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
24	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	25	case	_	_
25	9	9	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	nmod	_	_
26	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
27	stand	stand	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	parataxis	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=27:punct
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=imp

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you |  |  | the front from the back and 6th |  | 4th *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **count** | imperative | you *not said here* | yourself |  |  |  | once *property* | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Theme |
| 3 | **stand** | present | 1 people |  |  | the line |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in line=Location |

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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: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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