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title: To write 3 metres 25 centimetres in centimetres, turn the metres int… — Metres and centimetres, dollars and cents · tree and pragmatics
description: To write 3 metres 25 centimetres in centimetres, turn the metres into centimetres and add: 300 + 25 = 325 centimetres. Who acts: you. A sentence of the lesson «Metres and centimetres, dollars and cents» of the lessons course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# Metres and centimetres, dollars and cents, sentence 1

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To write 3 metres 25 centimetres in centimetres, turn the metres into centimetres and add: 300 + 25 = 325 centimetres.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** write, turn, add · **To what, where:** 3 metres, centimetres, metres

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Metres and centimetres, dollars and cents» 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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:lessons:134-two-units-in-one.lesson:1
# text = To write 3 metres 25 centimetres in centimetres, turn the metres into centimetres and add: 300 + 25 = 325 centimetres.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = lessons
# lesson = 134-two-units-in-one.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 ×4
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	write	write	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root
3	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	metres	metre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	25	25	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	centimetres	centimetre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod:unmarked	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	centimetres	centimetre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:advcl
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	metres	metre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	into	into	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	centimetres	centimetre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	add	add	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj
17	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
18	300	300	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
19	+	+	SYM	SYM	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	25	25	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	conj	_	_
21	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	22	case	_	_
22	325	325	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:nmod
23	centimetres	centimetre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **write** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | 3 metres  25 centimetres |  | centimetres |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent metre=Recipient centimetre=Topic |
| 2 | **turn** | imperative | you *not said here* | the metres |  | centimetres |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent metre=Theme into centimetre=Trajectory |
| 3 | **add** *speech: assert* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |

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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:134-two-units-in-one.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 ×4. **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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