What the remainder means: one more is needed, sentence 2
But if the question asks how many full boxes, the remainder is simply left out: 50 eggs fill 6 boxes of 8.
Who acts: question, many full boxes, 50 eggs · What happens: ask, leave out, fill · To what, where: many full boxes, remainder, 6 boxes
This is a sentence of the lesson «What the remainder means: one more is needed» 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 (question, many full boxes, 50 eggs), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 asks | cc |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 asks | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 question | det |
| 4 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 asks | nsubj |
| 5 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 many | advmod |
| 7 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 boxes | amod |
| 8 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 boxes | amod |
| 9 | boxes | box | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 asks | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 left | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 remainder | det |
| 12 | remainder | remainder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 left | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 left | aux:pass |
| 14 | simply | simply | ADV | _ | 15 left | advmod |
| 15 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 boxes | acl:relcl |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 left | compound:prt |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 fill | punct |
| 18 | 50 | 50 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 19 eggs | nummod |
| 19 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 fill | nsubj |
| 20 | fill | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 asks | conj |
| 21 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 22 boxes | nummod |
| 22 | boxes | box | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 fill | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 8 | case |
| 24 | 8 | 8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 22 boxes | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 asks | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | present | the question | many full boxes | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent box=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | leave out | present · passive | many full boxes not said here | the remainder | simply property | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 3 | fill | present | 50 eggs | 6 boxes of 8 | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent box=Patient |
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:145-remainder-round-up.lesson:2.
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): no change. 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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