Sounds right, but is wrong, sentence 20
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 · What happens: shake, count, be · To what, where: hands, 7 hands, handshake, 28, 6
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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | With | with | ADP | _ | 3 children | case |
| 2 | 8 | 8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 children | nummod |
| 3 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 28 | obl |
| 4 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 36 children | det |
| 5 | shaking | shake | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 36 children | amod |
| 6 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 shaking | obj |
| 7 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 5 shaking | advmod |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 child | case |
| 9 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 child | det |
| 10 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 child | amod |
| 11 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 28 | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 child | punct |
| 13 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 shakes | nsubj |
| 14 | shakes | shake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 28 | nsubj |
| 15 | 7 | 7 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 hands | nummod |
| 16 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 shakes | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 × | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 × | cc |
| 19 | 8 | 8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 20 × | nummod |
| 20 | × | × | SYM | Number=Sing | 14 shakes | nmod |
| 21 | 7 | 7 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 20 × | flat |
| 22 | = | = | SYM | _ | 24 counts | cc |
| 23 | 56 | 56 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 24 counts | nummod |
| 24 | counts | count | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 shakes | conj |
| 25 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 handshake | det |
| 26 | handshake | handshake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 counts | obj |
| 27 | twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 24 counts | advmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 are | punct |
| 29 | so | so | ADV | _ | 32 28 | advmod |
| 30 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 31 are | expl |
| 31 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 28 | cop |
| 32 | 28 | 28 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 39 6 | conj |
| 33 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 36 children | punct |
| 34 | with | with | ADP | _ | 36 children | case |
| 35 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 36 children | nummod |
| 36 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 6 | obl |
| 37 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 39 6 | expl |
| 38 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 6 | cop |
| 39 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 39 6 | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | 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 |
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: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.
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