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title: Don't count minute by minute; jump like a frog on stepping stones. — How long until? Counting on across the hour · tree and pragmatics
description: Don't count minute by minute; jump like a frog on stepping stones. Who acts: you. A sentence of the lesson «How long until? Counting on across the hour» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# How long until? Counting on across the hour, sentence 1

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Don't count minute by minute; jump like a frog on stepping stones.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** not count, jump, step

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This is a sentence of the lesson «How long until? Counting on across the hour» of the world 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 (you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:107-how-long-until-counting-on-across-the-hour.lesson:1
# text = Don't count minute by minute; jump like a frog on stepping stones.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 107-how-long-until-counting-on-across-the-hour.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
2	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	count	count	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	minute	minute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	minute	minute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=3:punct
8	jump	jump	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
9	like	like	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	frog	frog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	stepping	step	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	amod	_	_
14	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: suggest
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=imp, act=suggest

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **count** | imperative · do-support | you *not said here* |  |  |  | minute |  | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **jump** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | like a frog on stepping stones | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **step** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=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:world:107-how-long-until-counting-on-across-the-hour.lesson:1`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×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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