Olympiad: everyday reasoning ★★★, sentence 9
A 10-metre fence with a post every 2 metres, counting both ends, needs 6 posts.
Who acts: 2 metres, metre fence · What happens: count, need · To what, where: ends, 6 posts
This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: everyday reasoning ★★★» of the world 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 (2 metres, metre fence), 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 | 5 fence | det |
| 2 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 metre | nummod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 metre | punct |
| 4 | metre | metre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fence | compound |
| 5 | fence | fence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 needs | nsubj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 post | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 post | det |
| 8 | post | post | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fence | nmod |
| 9 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 metres | det |
| 10 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 metres | nummod |
| 11 | metres | metre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 post | nmod:unmarked |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 counting | punct |
| 13 | counting | count | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 metres | acl |
| 14 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 ends | det |
| 15 | ends | end | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 counting | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 fence | punct |
| 17 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 19 posts | nummod |
| 19 | posts | post | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 needs | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 needs | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | count | gerund | every 2 metres not said here | both ends | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent end=Theme | ||||
| 2 | need | present | a metre fence with a post every 2 metres | 6 posts | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot post=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:world:194-olympiad-everyday-reasoning.lesson:9.
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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