The unknown number: equations as stories, sentence 4
On a balance, 3 equal bags and a 5 kg weight against 26 kg mean the bags weigh 21 kg, so one bag weighs 7 kg.
Who acts: 3 equal bags, bags, one bag · What happens: mean, weigh · To what, where: balance, 21 kg, 7 kg · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The unknown number: equations as stories» 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: who acts (3 equal bags, bags, one bag), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 balance | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 balance | det |
| 3 | balance | balance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 mean | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 bags | punct |
| 5 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 bags | nummod |
| 6 | equal | equal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 bags | amod |
| 7 | bags | bag | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 mean | nsubj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 weight | cc |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 weight | det |
| 10 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 kg | nummod |
| 11 | kg | kg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 weight | compound |
| 12 | weight | weight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bags | conj |
| 13 | against | against | ADP | _ | 15 kg | case |
| 14 | 26 | 26 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 kg | nummod |
| 15 | kg | kg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 weight | nmod |
| 16 | mean | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 bags | det |
| 18 | bags | bag | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 weigh | nsubj |
| 19 | weigh | weigh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 mean | ccomp |
| 20 | 21 | 21 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 21 kg | nummod |
| 21 | kg | kg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 weigh | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 weighs | punct |
| 23 | so | so | ADV | _ | 26 weighs | advmod |
| 24 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 bag | nummod |
| 25 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 weighs | nsubj |
| 26 | weighs | weigh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 weigh | conj |
| 27 | 7 | 7 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 28 kg | nummod |
| 28 | kg | kg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 weighs | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 mean | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | 3 equal bags and a kg weight against 26 kg | a balance | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | weigh | present | the bags | 21 kg | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme kg=Value | ||||
| 3 | weigh | present | one bag | 7 kg | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme kg=Value |
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:138-equations-as-stories.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 ×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.
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