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title: How many cards does he have left?» The 7 marbles do not matter: 15 -… — A number we do not need · tree and pragmatics
description: How many cards does he have left?» The 7 marbles do not matter: 15 - 4 = 11 cards. Who acts: Max, many cards, 7 marbles. A sentence of the lesson «A number we do not need» of the lessons course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# A number we do not need, sentence 4

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How many cards does he have left?» The 7 marbles do not matter: 15 - 4 = 11 cards.

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**Who acts:** Max, many cards, 7 marbles · **What happens:** have, leave, not matter · **To what, where:** many cards, 15 11 cards · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «A number we do not need» 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 (Max, many cards, 7 marbles), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:lessons:079-extra-number.lesson:4
# text = How many cards does he have left?» The 7 marbles do not matter: 15 - 4 = 11 cards.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = lessons
# lesson = 079-extra-number.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, R6-punct-agree ×2
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	cards	card	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
4	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	xcomp	_	_
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct
9	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct
10	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	7	7	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	marbles	marble	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
13	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	matter	matter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	_
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
17	15	15	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
18	-	-	SYM	SYM	ExtPos=ADP	19	case	_	_
19	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	nmod	_	_
20	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	21	case	_	_
21	11	11	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:nmod
22	cards	card	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
23	.	.	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 | **have** | present · do-support | Max | many cards |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **leave** | participle | many cards *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **matter** *in a quote* | present · do-support | the 7 marbles | 15 11 cards |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:079-extra-number.lesson:4`.

**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, 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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