---
title: In the same way, 5 posts in a row have 4 gaps between them, and a cl… — Cuts and pieces, posts and gaps · tree and pragmatics
description: In the same way, 5 posts in a row have 4 gaps between them, and a clock striking 5 times has 4 pauses. Who acts: 5 posts, clock. 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.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/139-cuts-and-gaps/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/) / [Cuts and pieces, posts and gaps](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/139-cuts-and-gaps/) / 1

# Cuts and pieces, posts and gaps, sentence 1

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
In the same way, 5 posts in a row have 4 gaps between them, and a clock striking 5 times has 4 pauses.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** 5 posts, clock · **What happens:** have, strike · **To what, where:** 4 gaps, same way, 4 pauses

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (5 posts, clock), 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:1
# text = In the same way, 5 posts in a row have 4 gaps between them, and a clock striking 5 times has 4 pauses.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	posts	post	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	row	row	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	gaps	gap	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	between	between	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=11:cc
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	clock	clock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
20	striking	strike	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	acl	_	_
21	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl:unmarked	_	_
23	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
24	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	pauses	pause	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .note -->
No stored speech act for this sentence.

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | 5 posts in a row | 4 gaps |  | the same way |  | between gaps *= gap* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gap=Patient |
| 2 | **strike** | gerund | a clock *not said here* |  |  |  | time |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | present | a clock | 4 pauses |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pause=Patient |

<!-- .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:139-cuts-and-gaps.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): R1-cc-next ×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/).

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Cuts and pieces, posts and gaps, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/139-cuts-and-gaps/0/)
- next →: [Cuts and pieces, posts and gaps, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/139-cuts-and-gaps/2/)
- ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/139-cuts-and-gaps/)