--- title: And the knuckle trick: make two fists and count the months along the… — Days, weeks and months · tree and pragmatics description: And the knuckle trick: make two fists and count the months along the knuckles and the dips between them; knuckle months have 31 days, dip months fewer, and July and August sit on two knuckles side by side. Who acts: knuckle trick, knuckle months, July. 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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: who acts (knuckle trick, knuckle months, July), 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:7 # text = And the knuckle trick: make two fists and count the months along the knuckles and the dips between them; knuckle months have 31 days, dip months fewer, and July and August sit on two knuckles side by side. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 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 6 nsubj _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 4 punct _ _ 6 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 7 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ _ 8 fists fist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 count count VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 months month NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 13 along along ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 knuckles knuckle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 dips dip NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 conj _ _ 19 between between ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nmod _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 knuckle knuckle NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 months month NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 24 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 25 31 31 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 26 nummod _ _ 26 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 dip dip NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 months month NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nsubj _ _ 30 fewer few ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 15 parataxis _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 33 July July PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 August August PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 conj _ _ 36 sit sit VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 37 on on ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 39 nummod _ _ 39 knuckles knuckle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obl _ _ 40 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=36:advmod 41 by by ADP IN _ 40 fixed _ _ 42 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 fixed _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | infinitive | the knuckle trick | two fists | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fist=Product | | 2 | **count** | infinitive | the knuckle trick *not said here* | | | | month | along the knuckles and the dips between tricks | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **have** | present | knuckle months | | | | day | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **sit** | present | July and August | side | | two knuckles | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on knuckle=Location | 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:111-days-weeks-and-months.lesson:7`. **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): 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/). - ← previous: [Days, weeks and months, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/111-days-weeks-and-months/6/) - next →: [Days, weeks and months, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/111-days-weeks-and-months/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/111-days-weeks-and-months/)