---
title: To find one third of 12 apples, share them into 3 equal groups: 12 ÷… — One equal part of a set · tree and pragmatics
description: To find one third of 12 apples, share them into 3 equal groups: 12 ÷ 3 = 4, so one third of 12 is 4. Who acts: you, one third. A sentence of the lesson «One equal part of a set» of the lessons course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/101-one-part-of-a-set/1/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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/) / [One equal part of a set](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/101-one-part-of-a-set/) / 1

# One equal part of a set, sentence 1

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
To find one third of 12 apples, share them into 3 equal groups: 12 ÷ 3 = 4, so one third of 12 is 4.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** you, one third · **What happens:** find, share, be · **To what, where:** one third, apples, 3 equal groups, 4

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of the lesson «One equal part of a set» 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 (you, one third), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:lessons:101-one-part-of-a-set.lesson:1
# text = To find one third of 12 apples, share them into 3 equal groups: 12 ÷ 3 = 4, so one third of 12 is 4.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = lessons
# lesson = 101-one-part-of-a-set.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	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	find	find	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	third	third	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	apples	apple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	share	share	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	into	into	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
13	equal	equal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	groups	group	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
16	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
17	÷	÷	SYM	SYM	_	18	case	_	_
18	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	nmod	_	_
19	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	20	case	_	_
20	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	nmod	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
22	so	so	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
23	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	third	third	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	nmod	_	_
27	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
28	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	parataxis	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- sa -->
- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | one third of 12 apples |  |  |  | 12 ÷ 3 = 4 *obl:unmarked* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent third=Topic |
| 2 | **share** | imperative | you *not said here* | apples *= apple* |  | 3 equal groups |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present | one third of 12 | 4 |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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:101-one-part-of-a-set.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): 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/).

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [One equal part of a set, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/101-one-part-of-a-set/0/)
- next →: [One equal part of a set, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/101-one-part-of-a-set/2/)
- ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/101-one-part-of-a-set/)