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title: Doubling grows wildly: fold paper and the layers go 2, 4, 8, 16... — Sounds wrong, but is right · tree and pragmatics
description: Doubling grows wildly: fold paper and the layers go 2, 4, 8, 16... Who acts: Doubling, layers. 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# Sounds wrong, but is right, sentence 4

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Doubling grows wildly: fold paper and the layers go 2, 4, 8, 16...

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**Who acts:** Doubling, layers · **What happens:** grow, fold, go · **To what, where:** paper, 2

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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 (Doubling, layers), 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:4
# text = Doubling grows wildly: fold paper and the layers go 2, 4, 8, 16...
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×4
1	Doubling	doubling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	grows	grow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	wildly	wildly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
5	fold	fold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:xcomp
6	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	layers	layer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
11	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	obj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct
13	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:list
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	8	8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:list
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
17	16	16	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:list
18	...	...	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **grow** | present | Doubling |  |  |  |  | wildly *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **fold** | infinitive |  | paper |  |  |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent paper=Patient |
| 3 | **go** | present | the layers | 2 |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location 2=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:4`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×4. **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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