--- title: Counting "one Mississippi, two Mississippi" or "one elephant, two el… — Alarms, stopwatches and how long a second is · tree and pragmatics description: Counting "one Mississippi, two Mississippi" or "one elephant, two elephant" slows you down to about one second for each number. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:105-alarms-stopwatches-how-long-a-second-is.lesson:9 # text = Counting "one Mississippi, two Mississippi" or "one elephant, two elephant" slows you down to about one second for each number. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 105-alarms-stopwatches-how-long-a-second-is.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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×3 1 Counting count VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 2 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ _ 3 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 4 nummod _ _ 4 Mississippi Mississippi PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 7 Mississippi Mississippi PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:obj 8 " " PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ 9 or or CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 10 " " PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct 11 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 12 nummod _ _ 12 elephant elephant NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:nsubj 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 15 nummod _ _ 15 elephant elephant NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 appos _ _ 16 " " PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct 17 slows slow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 18 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ _ 19 down down ADP RP _ 17 compound:prt _ _ 20 to to ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 about about ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 23 nummod _ _ 23 second second NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl:unmarked _ _ 24 for for ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 26 det _ _ 26 number number NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 17 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **count** | gerund | | one Mississippi and two Mississippi and one elephant | | | | | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mississippi=Theme | | 2 | **slow down** | present | | you | | | second | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent you=Patient | 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. **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:world:105-alarms-stopwatches-how-long-a-second-is.lesson:9`. **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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×3. **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. 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