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title: The rule of thirds splits a picture into a 3 by 3 grid and places im… — Photography and phone cameras · tree and pragmatics
description: The rule of thirds splits a picture into a 3 by 3 grid and places important things on the lines or where they cross; many phones can show this grid. Who acts: rule, things, many phones, thirds. A sentence of the lesson «Photography and phone cameras» of the arts course of Mova's primary school with 
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# Photography and phone cameras, sentence 6

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The rule of thirds splits a picture into a 3 by 3 grid and places important things on the lines or where they cross; many phones can show this grid.

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**Who acts:** rule, things, many phones, thirds · **What happens:** split, place, cross, show, rule · **To what, where:** picture, 3 grid, important things, lines, grid

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Photography and phone cameras» of the arts 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 (rule, things, many phones, thirds), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:arts:020-photography-and-phone-cameras.lesson:6
# text = The rule of thirds splits a picture into a 3 by 3 grid and places important things on the lines or where they cross; many phones can show this grid.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = arts
# lesson = 020-photography-and-phone-cameras.lesson
# annotation = 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
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	thirds	third	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
5	splits	split	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	picture	picture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	into	into	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
10	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nmod	_	_
13	grid	grid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	places	place	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
16	important	important	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	lines	line	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:nmod
21	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	24	advmod	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	cross	cross	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl:relcl	_	_
25	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	phones	phone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
28	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
30	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	31	det	_	_
31	grid	grid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=29:punct
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **split** | present | the rule of thirds | a picture |  |  |  | into a 3 grid *result* | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent picture=Patient into grid=Result |
| 2 | **place** | present | the rule of thirds *not said here* | important things |  | the lines |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme on line=Destination |
| 3 | **cross** | present | things *= thing* |  |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **show** | can | many phones | this grid |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent grid=Recipient |
| 5 | **rule** |  | thirds |  |  |  |  |  | nom rule «cognition intransitive»: of=agent |

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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.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:arts:020-photography-and-phone-cameras.lesson:6`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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