--- title: Three fifths of a 40 km road: one fifth is 40 ÷ 5 = 8 km, so three f… — A fraction of a quantity · tree and pragmatics description: Three fifths of a 40 km road: one fifth is 40 ÷ 5 = 8 km, so three fifths is 3 × 8 = 24 km. Who acts: one. 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/151-fraction-of-a-quantity/2/) [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/) / [A fraction of a quantity](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/151-fraction-of-a-quantity/) / 2 # A fraction of a quantity, sentence 2 Three fifths of a 40 km road: one fifth is 40 ÷ 5 = 8 km, so three fifths is 3 × 8 = 24 km. **Who acts:** one · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** 40 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: who acts (one), 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:2 # text = Three fifths of a 40 km road: one fifth is 40 ÷ 5 = 8 km, so three fifths is 3 × 8 = 24 km. # 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): no change 1 Three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 fifths fifth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 5 40 40 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ _ 6 km km NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 road road NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 9 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 12 nsubj _ _ 10 fifth fifth NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 flat _ _ 11 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 12 40 40 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 parataxis _ _ 13 ÷ ÷ SYM SYM Number=Sing 12 flat _ _ 14 5 5 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 12 flat _ _ 15 = = SYM SYM _ 12 flat _ _ 16 8 8 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 12 appos _ _ 17 km km NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod:unmarked _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 19 so so ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 20 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 21 nummod _ _ 21 fifths fifth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 22 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 23 3 3 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 24 nummod _ _ 24 × × SYM SYM Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 25 8 8 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 24 flat _ _ 26 = = SYM SYM _ 24 flat _ _ 27 24 24 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 24 appos _ _ 28 km km NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod:unmarked _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | one | 40 | | | | | tree rules | 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:151-fraction-of-a-quantity.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): 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/). - ← previous: [A fraction of a quantity, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/151-fraction-of-a-quantity/1/) - next →: [The whole from its fraction, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/152-the-whole-from-a-fraction/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/151-fraction-of-a-quantity/)