--- title: When a square is cut by parallel cuts into equal strips, every strip… — A square cut into equal strips · tree and pragmatics description: When a square is cut by parallel cuts into equal strips, every strip is as long as the square's side, and its width is the side divided by the number of strips. Who acts: parallel cuts, strip, width. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (parallel cuts, strip, width), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:lessons:150-square-cut-into-strips.lesson:0 # text = When a square is cut by parallel cuts into equal strips, every strip is as long as the square's side, and its width is the side divided by the number of strips. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = lessons # lesson = 150-square-cut-into-strips.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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 5 advmod _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 square square NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj:pass _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux:pass _ _ 5 cut cut VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 6 by by ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 parallel parallel ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 cuts cut NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 9 into into ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 equal equal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 strips strip NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 13 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 14 det _ _ 14 strip strip NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 15 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 16 as as ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 parataxis _ _ 18 as as ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 square square NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod:poss _ _ 21 's 's PART POS _ 20 case _ _ 22 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 25 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 width width NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 27 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 30 divided divide VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 29 acl _ _ 31 by by ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 number number NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 strips strip NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nmod _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 17 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cut** | present · passive | parallel cuts | a square | | equal strips | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent subject=Material into strip=Product | | 2 | **is** | present | every strip | | | | | as the square's side; long *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **is a** | present | square's width | the side | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **divide** | participle | | the side *not said here* | | | | by the number of strips | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent by number=Co-Theme | 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. **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:150-square-cut-into-strips.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): R6-punct-agree ×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/). - ← previous: [Sum and difference: two amounts from t…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/149-sum-and-difference/2/) - next →: [A square cut into equal strips, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/150-square-cut-into-strips/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/150-square-cut-into-strips/)