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title: To find a fraction of a quantity, first find one equal part: divide… — A fraction of a quantity · tree and pragmatics
description: To find a fraction of a quantity, first find one equal part: divide by the number below the line. A sentence of the lesson «A fraction of a quantity» of the lessons course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# A fraction of a quantity, sentence 0

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To find a fraction of a quantity, first find one equal part: divide by the number below the line.

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**What happens:** find, divide · **To what, where:** fraction, one equal part

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This is a sentence of the lesson «A fraction of a quantity» 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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:lessons:151-fraction-of-a-quantity.lesson:0
# text = To find a fraction of a quantity, first find one equal part: divide by the number below the line.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = lessons
# lesson = 151-fraction-of-a-quantity.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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	find	find	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	fraction	fraction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	quantity	quantity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	10	advmod	_	_
10	find	find	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
11	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
12	equal	equal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
15	divide	divide	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:obl
19	below	below	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=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 | **find** | to-infinitive |  | a fraction of a quantity |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fraction=Topic |
| 2 | **find** | infinitive |  | one equal part |  |  |  | first *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Topic |
| 3 | **divide** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | by the number below the line | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent by number=Co-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:151-fraction-of-a-quantity.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): R5-strong ×1, 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/).

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