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title: In the knuckle trick, months that land on a knuckle have 31 days, an… — Days, weeks and months · tree and pragmatics
description: In the knuckle trick, months that land on a knuckle have 31 days, and months that land in a dip have fewer. Who acts: months. A sentence of the lesson «Days, weeks and months» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Days, weeks and months, sentence 15

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In the knuckle trick, months that land on a knuckle have 31 days, and months that land in a dip have fewer.

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**Who acts:** months · **What happens:** land, have · **To what, where:** knuckle, knuckle trick, dip, fewer

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Days, weeks and months» 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 (months), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:111-days-weeks-and-months.lesson:15
# text = In the knuckle trick, months that land on a knuckle have 31 days, and months that land in a dip have fewer.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 111-days-weeks-and-months.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	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	knuckle	knuckle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	trick	trick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	land	land	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	knuckle	knuckle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	31	31	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
17	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
18	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	land	land	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	dip	dip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
24	fewer	few	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	23	obj	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	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 | **land** | present | months |  |  | a knuckle |  |  | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on knuckle=Destination |
| 2 | **have** | present | months |  |  | the knuckle trick | day |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **land** | present | months |  |  | a dip |  |  | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in dip=Destination |
| 4 | **have** | present | months | fewer |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent few=Patient |

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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:111-days-weeks-and-months.lesson:15`.

**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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