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title: So with 5 pieces and 3 minutes a cut, the sawing takes (5 − 1) × 3 =… — Cuts and pieces, posts and gaps · tree and pragmatics
description: So with 5 pieces and 3 minutes a cut, the sawing takes (5 − 1) × 3 = 12 minutes. Who acts: sawing. 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 2

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So with 5 pieces and 3 minutes a cut, the sawing takes (5 − 1) × 3 = 12 minutes.

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**Who acts:** sawing · **What happens:** take · **To what, where:** 5

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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 (sawing), 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:2
# text = So with 5 pieces and 3 minutes a cut, the sawing takes (5 − 1) × 3 = 12 minutes.
# 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): R5-strong ×3
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
2	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
6	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:nmod:unmarked
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	cut	cut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:det
12	sawing	sawing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	takes	take	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	15	punct	_	_
15	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	obj	_	_
16	−	−	SYM	SYM	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	_
17	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
18	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	15	punct	_	_
19	×	×	SYM	SYM	_	20	dep	_	_
20	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
21	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	20	dep	_	_
22	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:nmod
23	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl:unmarked	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	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 | **take** | present | the sawing | 5 |  |  | minute | with 5 pieces and 3 minutes and a cut | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 5=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:2`.

**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 ×3. **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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