--- title: When a story mixes units, turn everything into one unit, work out th… — Yards, feet and inches in two steps · tree and pragmatics description: When a story mixes units, turn everything into one unit, work out the story, then turn the answer into the unit the question asks for. Who acts: story, you, question. A sentence of the lesson «Yards, feet and inches in two steps» of the lessons course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tre --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/100-two-step-measures/1/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Lessons](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/) / [Yards, feet and inches in two steps](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/100-two-step-measures/) / 1 # Yards, feet and inches in two steps, sentence 1 When a story mixes units, turn everything into one unit, work out the story, then turn the answer into the unit the question asks for. **Who acts:** story, you, question · **What happens:** mix, turn, work out, ask · **To what, where:** units, everything, one unit, story, answer, unit This is a sentence of the lesson «Yards, feet and inches in two steps» 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 (story, you, question), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:lessons:100-two-step-measures.lesson:1 # text = When a story mixes units, turn everything into one unit, work out the story, then turn the answer into the unit the question asks for. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = lessons # lesson = 100-two-step-measures.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 4 mark _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 mixes mix VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ _ 5 units unit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 turn turn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 8 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 7 obj _ _ 9 into into ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 11 nummod _ _ 11 unit unit NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=7:punct 13 work work VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 14 out out ADP RP _ 13 compound:prt _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 19 advmod _ _ 19 turn turn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 conj _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 answer answer NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 into into ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 unit unit NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 question question NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 27 asks ask VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:parataxis 28 for for ADP IN _ 27 obl _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: suggest - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed form=imp, act=suggest | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mix** | present | a story | units | | | | | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent unit=Patient | | 2 | **turn** | imperative | you *not said here* | everything | | one unit | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent everything=Theme into unit=Trajectory | | 3 | **work out** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the story | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Topic | | 4 | **turn** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the answer | | the unit | then | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent answer=Theme into unit=Trajectory | | 5 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | the question | the unit *not said here* | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent unit=Recipient | 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](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:lessons:100-two-step-measures.lesson:1`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, 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/). - ← previous: [Yards, feet and inches in two steps, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/100-two-step-measures/0/) - next →: [Yards, feet and inches in two steps, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/100-two-step-measures/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/100-two-step-measures/)