--- title: Three fourths of a ribbon is 18 cm: one fourth is 18 ÷ 3 = 6 cm, and… — The whole from its fraction · tree and pragmatics description: Three fourths of a ribbon is 18 cm: one fourth is 18 ÷ 3 = 6 cm, and the whole ribbon is 4 × 6 = 24 cm. Who acts: Three fourths, one fourth. A sentence of the lesson «The whole from its fraction» of the lessons course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/152-the-whole-from-a-fraction/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/) / [The whole from its fraction](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/152-the-whole-from-a-fraction/) / 2 # The whole from its fraction, sentence 2 Three fourths of a ribbon is 18 cm: one fourth is 18 ÷ 3 = 6 cm, and the whole ribbon is 4 × 6 = 24 cm. **Who acts:** Three fourths, one fourth · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** 18 cm, 18 This is a sentence of the lesson «The whole from its fraction» 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 (Three fourths, one fourth), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:lessons:152-the-whole-from-a-fraction.lesson:2 # text = Three fourths of a ribbon is 18 cm: one fourth is 18 ÷ 3 = 6 cm, and the whole ribbon is 4 × 6 = 24 cm. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = lessons # lesson = 152-the-whole-from-a-fraction.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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 fourths fourth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 ribbon ribbon NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 7 18 18 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ _ 8 cm cm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 9 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 10 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 11 nummod _ _ 11 fourth fourth NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 13 18 18 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 8 appos _ _ 14 ÷ ÷ SYM SYM Number=Sing 15 case _ _ 15 3 3 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 13 nmod _ _ 16 = = SYM SYM _ 17 case _ _ 17 6 6 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 15 nmod _ _ 18 cm cm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nmod:unmarked _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 ribbon ribbon NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 24 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 25 4 4 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 26 nummod _ _ 26 × × SYM SYM Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 27 6 6 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 30 nummod _ _ 28 = = SYM SYM _ 29 case _ _ 29 24 24 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 30 nummod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:nmod 30 cm cm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 acl _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 8 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 | Three fourths of a ribbon | 18 cm | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | present | one fourth | 18 | | | | ÷ 3 = 6; cm *nmod:unmarked* | 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:152-the-whole-from-a-fraction.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 ×1, R8-pos-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: [The whole from its fraction, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/152-the-whole-from-a-fraction/1/) - next →: [How long it lasts: from one clock time…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/153-time-intervals/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/152-the-whole-from-a-fraction/)