Fence around a square, sentence 2
A square sandpit with a side of 3 metres needs 3 × 4 = 12 metres of fence to go all around it.
Who acts: square sandpit, 12 metres · What happens: need, go · To what, where: 12 metres, sandpit
This is a sentence of the lesson «Fence around a square» 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 (square sandpit, 12 metres), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 sandpit | det |
| 2 | square | square | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sandpit | amod |
| 3 | sandpit | sandpit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 needs | nsubj |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 side | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 side | det |
| 6 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sandpit | nmod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 metres | case |
| 8 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 metres | nummod |
| 9 | metres | metre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 side | nmod |
| 10 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 12 | compound |
| 12 | × | × | SYM | Number=Sing | 15 12 | flat |
| 13 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 12 | flat |
| 14 | = | = | SYM | _ | 15 12 | flat |
| 15 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 metres | nummod |
| 16 | metres | metre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 needs | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 fence | case |
| 18 | fence | fence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 metres | nmod |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 go | mark |
| 20 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 needs | xcomp |
| 21 | all | all | ADV | _ | 23 it | advmod |
| 22 | around | around | ADP | _ | 23 it | case |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 go | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 needs | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | need | present | a square sandpit with a side of 3 metres | 12 metres of fence | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | 12 metres of fence not said here | sandpit | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme around it=Initial_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:lessons:218-fence-around-a-square.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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