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title: Count the gaps and the posts separately; the same trap catches log c… — Sounds wrong, but is right · tree and pragmatics
description: Count the gaps and the posts separately; the same trap catches log cuts (4 pieces need only 3 cuts) and the snail in the well. Who acts: you, same trap, 4 pieces. A sentence of the lesson «Sounds wrong, but is right» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# Sounds wrong, but is right, sentence 3

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Count the gaps and the posts separately; the same trap catches log cuts (4 pieces need only 3 cuts) and the snail in the well.

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**Who acts:** you, same trap, 4 pieces · **What happens:** count, catch, need · **To what, where:** gaps, log cuts, 3 cuts

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Sounds wrong, but is right» 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, same trap, 4 pieces), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:182-sounds-wrong-but-is-right.lesson:3
# text = Count the gaps and the posts separately; the same trap catches log cuts (4 pieces need only 3 cuts) and the snail in the well.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 182-sounds-wrong-but-is-right.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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Count	count	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	gaps	gap	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	posts	post	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
7	separately	separately	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=1:punct
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	trap	trap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	catches	catch	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:conj
13	log	log	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	cuts	cut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	18	punct	_	_
16	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
18	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
19	only	only	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	cuts	cut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
22	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	18	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21:punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	snail	snail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	well	well	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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 | **count** | imperative | you *not said here* | the gaps and the posts |  |  |  | separately *property* | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gap=Theme |
| 2 | **catch** | present | the same trap | log cuts and the snail in the well |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cut=Theme |
| 3 | **need** | present | 4 pieces | 3 cuts |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot cut=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:182-sounds-wrong-but-is-right.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×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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