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title: In a joining story we know two of three numbers: how many at first,… — Some more join in: how many came, how many at fi… · tree and pragmatics
description: In a joining story we know two of three numbers: how many at first, how many came, how many at the end. Who acts: we, many. A sentence of the lesson «Some more join in: how many came, how many at first» of the lessons course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# Some more join in: how many came, how many at first, sentence 0

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In a joining story we know two of three numbers: how many at first, how many came, how many at the end.

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**Who acts:** we, many · **What happens:** join, know, come · **To what, where:** two three numbers, joining story, many

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Some more join in: how many came, how many at first» 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 (we, many), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:lessons:072-join-change-start-unknown.lesson:0
# text = In a joining story we know two of three numbers: how many at first, how many came, how many at the end.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = lessons
# lesson = 072-join-change-start-unknown.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	joining	join	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
4	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:nmod
10	numbers	number	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
12	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
13	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	13	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	18	advmod	_	_
18	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	nsubj	_	_
19	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	22	advmod	_	_
22	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	obj	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	.	.	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 | **join** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **know** | present | we | two three numbers |  | a joining story |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer number=Stimulus |
| 3 | **come** | past | many | many |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location many=Theme |

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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:072-join-change-start-unknown.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 ×1, R7-rel-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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