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title: To cut a log into 5 pieces you need only 4 cuts: the last piece need… — Cuts and pieces, posts and gaps · tree and pragmatics
description: To cut a log into 5 pieces you need only 4 cuts: the last piece needs no cut of its own. Who acts: you, last piece. A sentence of the lesson «Cuts and pieces, posts and gaps» of the lessons course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Cuts and pieces, posts and gaps, sentence 0

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To cut a log into 5 pieces you need only 4 cuts: the last piece needs no cut of its own.

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**Who acts:** you, last piece · **What happens:** cut, need · **To what, where:** log, 5 pieces, 4 cuts, cut

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Cuts and pieces, posts and gaps» 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, last piece), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:lessons:139-cuts-and-gaps.lesson:0
# text = To cut a log into 5 pieces you need only 4 cuts: the last piece needs no cut of its own.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = lessons
# lesson = 139-cuts-and-gaps.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): no change
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	cut	cut	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	log	log	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	only	only	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	cuts	cut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
18	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	19	det	_	_
19	cut	cut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	nmod	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cut** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | a log |  | 5 pieces |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent log=Material into piece=Product |
| 2 | **need** | present | you | 4 cuts |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot cut=Theme |
| 3 | **need** | present | the last piece | no cut of log's own |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot cut=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:139-cuts-and-gaps.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): no change. **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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