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title: Some problems need two steps: first the area of a rectangle, then a… — Review: fractions and shapes together · tree and pragmatics
description: Some problems need two steps: first the area of a rectangle, then a fraction of that area. Who acts: problems. A sentence of the lesson «Review: fractions and shapes together» of the lessons course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Review: fractions and shapes together, sentence 0

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Some problems need two steps: first the area of a rectangle, then a fraction of that area.

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**Who acts:** problems · **What happens:** need · **To what, where:** two steps

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Review: fractions and shapes together» 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 (problems), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:lessons:110-fractions-and-shapes-review.lesson:0
# text = Some problems need two steps: first the area of a rectangle, then a fraction of that area.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = lessons
# lesson = 110-fractions-and-shapes-review.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): R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	problems	problem	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	steps	step	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
7	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	9	advmod	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	rectangle	rectangle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	advmod	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	fraction	fraction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:conj
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	det	_	_
19	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **need** | present | some problems | two steps |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot step=Theme |

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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:lessons:110-fractions-and-shapes-review.lesson:0`.

**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): R7-rel-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.

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

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