Metres, centimetres and millimetres, sentence 2
3 metres of ribbon is 300 cm; pieces of 25 cm give 300 ÷ 25 = 12 pieces.
Who acts: 3 metres, pieces · What happens: be, give · To what, where: 300 cm, 300 ÷
This is a sentence of the lesson «Metres, centimetres and millimetres» 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 metres, pieces), 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 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 metres | nummod |
| 2 | metres | metre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 cm | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 ribbon | case |
| 4 | ribbon | ribbon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 metres | nmod |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 cm | cop |
| 6 | 300 | 300 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 cm | nummod |
| 7 | cm | cm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 give | parataxis |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 pieces | punct |
| 9 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 give | nsubj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 cm | case |
| 11 | 25 | 25 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 cm | nummod |
| 12 | cm | cm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 pieces | nmod |
| 13 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | 300 | 300 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 ÷ | nummod |
| 15 | ÷ | ÷ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 give | obj |
| 16 | 25 | 25 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 19 pieces | nummod |
| 17 | = | = | SYM | _ | 18 12 | case |
| 18 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 19 pieces | nummod |
| 19 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 give | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 cm | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | 3 metres of ribbon | 300 cm | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | give | present | pieces of 25 cm | 300 ÷ | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent ÷=Recipient piece=Theme |
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:247-metres-centimetres-and-millimetres.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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-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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