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title: A ribbon is 60 cm. 1/3 is cut off: 60 / 3 = 20 cm, and 40 cm remain. — A part, then a part of the rest · tree and pragmatics
description: A ribbon is 60 cm. 1/3 is cut off: 60 / 3 = 20 cm, and 40 cm remain. Who acts: ribbon, 40 cm. A sentence of the lesson «A part, then a part of the rest» of the lessons course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# A part, then a part of the rest, sentence 1

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A ribbon is 60 cm. 1/3 is cut off: 60 / 3 = 20 cm, and 40 cm remain.

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**Who acts:** ribbon, 40 cm · **What happens:** be, cut off, remain · **To what, where:** 60 cm, 1/3

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This is a sentence of the lesson «A part, then a part of the rest» 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 (ribbon, 40 cm), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:lessons:173-fractions-of-the-rest.lesson:1
# text = A ribbon is 60 cm. 1/3 is cut off: 60 / 3 = 20 cm, and 40 cm remain.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = lessons
# lesson = 173-fractions-of-the-rest.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 ×2
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	ribbon	ribbon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	60	60	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	cm	cm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	parataxis	_	_
6	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct
7	1/3	1/3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	cut	cut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	off	off	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
12	60	60	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	obl	_	_
13	/	/	SYM	SYM	_	14	cc	_	_
14	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	conj	_	_
15	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	17	cc	_	_
16	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	cm	cm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	40	40	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	cm	cm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
22	remain	remain	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9: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 | **is a** | present | a ribbon | 60 cm |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **cut off** | present · passive |  | 1/3 |  |  |  | 60 = 20 cm *obl* | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality |
| 3 | **remain** | present | 40 cm |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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:173-fractions-of-the-rest.lesson:1`.

**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 ×2. **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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