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title: With 8 children each shaking hands once with every other child, each… — Sounds right, but is wrong · tree and pragmatics
description: With 8 children each shaking hands once with every other child, each shakes 7 hands, and 8 × 7 = 56 counts every handshake twice, so there are 28; with 4 children there are 6. Who acts: each, shakes. A sentence of the lesson «Sounds right, but is wrong» of the world course of Mova's primary school w
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# Sounds right, but is wrong, sentence 20

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With 8 children each shaking hands once with every other child, each shakes 7 hands, and 8 × 7 = 56 counts every handshake twice, so there are 28; with 4 children there are 6.

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**Who acts:** each, shakes · **What happens:** shake, count, be · **To what, where:** hands, 7 hands, handshake, 28, 6

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

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:183-sounds-right-but-is-wrong.lesson:20
# text = With 8 children each shaking hands once with every other child, each shakes 7 hands, and 8 × 7 = 56 counts every handshake twice, so there are 28; with 4 children there are 6.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 183-sounds-right-but-is-wrong.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): R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	8	8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	_
4	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	36	det	_	_
5	shaking	shake	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	36	amod	_	_
6	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	5	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:advmod
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	det	_	_
10	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:det
14	shakes	shake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
15	7	7	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	8	8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	×	×	SYM	SYM	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
21	7	7	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	flat	_	_
22	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	24	cc	_	_
23	56	56	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	counts	count	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
25	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	26	det	_	_
26	handshake	handshake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:conj
27	twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	24	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	so	so	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
30	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	31	expl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:expl
31	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
32	28	28	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	39	conj	_	_
33	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	with	with	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	36	nummod	_	_
36	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	obl	_	_
37	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	39	expl	_	_
38	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	cop	_	_
39	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	39	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 | **shake** | gerund |  | hands |  |  |  | once *property* | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent hand=Patient |
| 2 | **shake** |  | each | 7 hands |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **count** | present | each *not said here* | every handshake |  |  |  | twice *property* | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent handshake=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | present | shakes | 28 |  |  |  | with 8 children; with every other child | tree rules |
| 5 | **is a** | present |  | 6 |  | there |  | with each shaking 4 children | tree rules |

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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:183-sounds-right-but-is-wrong.lesson:20`.

**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): R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-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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