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title: Sometimes nothing comes or goes: a group is simply made of two parts… — Two parts and the whole · tree and pragmatics
description: Sometimes nothing comes or goes: a group is simply made of two parts, like boys and girls in a class. Who acts: nothing. A sentence of the lesson «Two parts and the whole» of the lessons course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Two parts and the whole, sentence 0

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Sometimes nothing comes or goes: a group is simply made of two parts, like boys and girls in a class.

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**Who acts:** nothing · **What happens:** come, go, make · **To what, where:** group

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Two parts and the whole» 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 (nothing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:lessons:075-part-part-whole.lesson:0
# text = Sometimes nothing comes or goes: a group is simply made of two parts, like boys and girls in a class.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = lessons
# lesson = 075-part-part-whole.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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	3	advmod	_	_
2	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	3	nsubj	_	_
3	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	group	group	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
10	simply	simply	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	advcl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	like	like	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	class	class	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **come** | present | nothing |  |  |  |  | sometimes *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **go** | present | nothing *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **make** | present · passive |  | a group |  |  |  | of two parts like boys in a class and girls; simply *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |

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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:075-part-part-whole.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): 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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