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title: Fingers help too: many Ukrainians count by bending fingers into the… — To a hundred, first and last, and the first colour · tree and pragmatics
description: Fingers help too: many Ukrainians count by bending fingers into the palm one by one, so a friend's «three» on the hand can look different from yours. Who acts: Fingers, many Ukrainians, three. A sentence of the lesson «To a hundred, first and last, and the first colour» of the ukrainian street cours
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# To a hundred, first and last, and the first colour, sentence 3

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Fingers help too: many Ukrainians count by bending fingers into the palm one by one, so a friend's «three» on the hand can look different from yours.

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**Who acts:** Fingers, many Ukrainians, three · **What happens:** help, count, bend, look · **To what, where:** fingers, palm

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This is a sentence of the lesson «To a hundred, first and last, and the first colour» of the ukrainian street 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 (Fingers, many Ukrainians, three), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:ukrainian-street:009-to-a-hundred-first-and-last-red.lesson:3
# text = Fingers help too: many Ukrainians count by bending fingers into the palm one by one, so a friend's «three» on the hand can look different from yours.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = ukrainian-street
# lesson = 009-to-a-hundred-first-and-last-red.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): no change
1	Fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	help	help	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	too	too	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
5	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	Ukrainians	Ukrainian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	count	count	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
8	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	bending	bend	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	advcl	_	_
10	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
11	into	into	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	palm	palm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	flat	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	fixed	_	_
16	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	fixed	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod:poss	_	_
21	's	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
22	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	_
23	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	nsubj	_	_
24	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
28	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	parataxis	_	_
30	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	xcomp	_	_
31	from	from	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	yours	your	PRON	PRP	Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	obl	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **help** | present | Fingers |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **count** | present | many Ukrainians |  |  |  |  |  | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **bend** | gerund | many Ukrainians *not said here* | fingers |  | the palm |  |  | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent finger=Material into palm=Product |
| 4 | **look** | can | a friend's three on the hand |  |  |  |  | different *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: 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:ukrainian-street:009-to-a-hundred-first-and-last-red.lesson:3`.

**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): no change. **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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