Comparing a half with a smaller part, sentence 1
To compare, find each part and subtract the smaller from the bigger: a half of 12 is 6 − 4 = 2 more than a third of 12.
What happens: compare, find, subtract, be · To what, where: half, part, smaller
This is a sentence of the lesson «Comparing a half with a smaller part» of the lessons 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: 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 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 compare | mark |
| 2 | compare | compare | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 find | punct |
| 4 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 compare | conj |
| 5 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 part | det |
| 6 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 find | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 subtract | cc |
| 8 | subtract | subtract | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 find | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 smaller | det |
| 10 | smaller | small | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 subtract | obj |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 bigger | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 bigger | det |
| 13 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 subtract | obl |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 half | punct |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 half | det |
| 16 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 2 compare | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 − | case |
| 18 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 half | nmod |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 − | cop |
| 20 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 21 − | nummod |
| 21 | − | − | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 half | nmod |
| 22 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 25 more | nummod |
| 23 | = | = | SYM | _ | 24 2 | case |
| 24 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 22 4 | nmod |
| 25 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 21 − | conj |
| 26 | than | than | ADP | _ | 28 third | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 third | det |
| 28 | third | third | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 more | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 12 | case |
| 30 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 28 third | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 compare | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | compare | to-infinitive | a half 12 | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | find | infinitive | each part | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Topic | |||||
| 3 | subtract | infinitive | the smaller | from the bigger | vn multiply-108-2 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent small=Theme from big=Co-Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | present | of 6 − | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | be | than a third of 12 | 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:lessons:104-comparing-parts.lesson:1.
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 ×2. 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.
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