Measuring the world — length, mass, time and temperature, sentence 16

Measuring the same thing several times and taking the average (add the results up and divide by how many there are) gives a more reliable result.

Who acts: average, many, Measuring · What happens: measure, take, add up, divide, be, give · To what, where: same thing, average, results, reliable result

This is a sentence of the lesson «Measuring the world — length, mass, time and temperature» 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 (average, many, Measuring), 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	Measuring	measure	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 gives	csubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 thing	det
3	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 thing	amod
4	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Measuring	obj
5	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 times	amod
6	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Measuring	obl:unmarked
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 taking	cc
8	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Measuring	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 average	det
10	average	average	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 taking	obj
11	(	(	PUNCT	_	12 add	punct
12	add	add	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 average	acl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 results	det
14	results	result	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 add	obj
15	up	up	ADP	_	12 add	compound:prt
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 divide	cc
17	divide	divide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 add	conj
18	by	by	SCONJ	_	22 are	mark
19	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	20 many	advmod
20	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 are	nsubj
21	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	22 are	expl
22	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 divide	advcl
23	)	)	PUNCT	_	12 add	punct
24	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 result	det
26	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	27 reliable	advmod
27	reliable	reliable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 result	amod
28	result	result	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 gives	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 gives	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	measure	gerund		the same thing		time	vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme thing=Value
2	take	gerund		the average			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent average=Theme
3	add up speech: assert	infinitive	the average not said here	the results			vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent result=Patient
4	divide	infinitive	the average not said here				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	be	present	many		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	give	present	Measuring	a reliable result			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent result=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:090-measuring-the-world.lesson:16.

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 ×2, R6-punct-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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