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title: The rule of thirds splits a picture with two lines across and two li… — Olympiad: picture puzzles, colours, dates and my… · tree and pragmatics
description: The rule of thirds splits a picture with two lines across and two lines down into a grid of 9 boxes, with 4 points where the lines cross. Who acts: rule, lines, thirds. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: picture puzzles, colours, dates and myths ★★★» of the arts course of Mova's primary school with
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# Olympiad: picture puzzles, colours, dates and myths ★★★, sentence 10

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The rule of thirds splits a picture with two lines across and two lines down into a grid of 9 boxes, with 4 points where the lines cross.

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**Who acts:** rule, lines, thirds · **What happens:** split, cross, rule · **To what, where:** picture, grid

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: picture puzzles, colours, dates and myths ★★★» 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, lines, thirds), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:arts:042-olympiad-picture-puzzles.lesson:10
# text = The rule of thirds splits a picture with two lines across and two lines down into a grid of 9 boxes, with 4 points where the lines cross.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = arts
# lesson = 042-olympiad-picture-puzzles.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 ×2
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	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	lines	line	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
11	across	across	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	lines	line	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:obl:unmarked
15	down	down	ADV	RB	_	11	conj	_	_
16	into	into	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	grid	grid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	9	9	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	boxes	box	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	points	point	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:conj
26	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	29	advmod	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	lines	line	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
29	cross	cross	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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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 grid of 9 boxes *result*; with two lines and two lines; with 4 points | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result PP.instrument»: agent=Agent picture=Patient into grid=Result with point=Instrument |
| 2 | **cross** | present | the lines |  |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **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:042-olympiad-picture-puzzles.lesson:10`.

**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. **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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