Days, weeks and months, sentence 7

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 · What happens: make, count, have, sit · To what, where: two fists, side, two knuckles

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 (knuckle trick, knuckle months, July), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 make	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 trick	det
3	knuckle	knuckle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 trick	compound
4	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 make	nsubj
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 trick	punct
6	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 fists	nummod
8	fists	fist	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 make	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 count	cc
10	count	count	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 make	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 months	det
12	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 count	obj
13	along	along	ADP	_	15 knuckles	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 knuckles	det
15	knuckles	knuckle	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 count	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 dips	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 dips	det
18	dips	dip	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 knuckles	conj
19	between	between	ADP	_	20 them	case
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 dips	nmod
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 have	punct
22	knuckle	knuckle	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 months	compound
23	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 have	nsubj
24	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 make	conj
25	31	31	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	26 days	nummod
26	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 have	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 months	punct
28	dip	dip	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 months	compound
29	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 fewer	nsubj
30	fewer	few	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	15 knuckles	parataxis
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 sit	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 sit	cc
33	July	July	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 sit	nsubj
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 August	cc
35	August	August	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 July	conj
36	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 make	conj
37	on	on	ADP	_	39 knuckles	case
38	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	39 knuckles	nummod
39	knuckles	knuckle	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 sit	obl
40	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 sit	obl
41	by	by	ADP	_	40 side	fixed
42	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 side	fixed
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 make	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, 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, 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.

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