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title: A log of 24 dm cut into pieces of 4 dm gives 24 ÷ 4 = 6 pieces, whic… — Cuts and pieces · tree and pragmatics
description: A log of 24 dm cut into pieces of 4 dm gives 24 ÷ 4 = 6 pieces, which takes 6 - 1 = 5 cuts. Who acts: log, 4 6 pieces. A sentence of the lesson «Cuts and pieces» of the lessons course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Cuts and pieces, sentence 1

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A log of 24 dm cut into pieces of 4 dm gives 24 ÷ 4 = 6 pieces, which takes 6 - 1 = 5 cuts.

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**Who acts:** log, 4 6 pieces · **What happens:** cut, give, take · **To what, where:** 24 dm, 4 6 pieces, 6 cuts

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Cuts and pieces» 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 (log, 4 6 pieces), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:lessons:185-cuts-and-pieces.lesson:1
# text = A log of 24 dm cut into pieces of 4 dm gives 24 ÷ 4 = 6 pieces, which takes 6 - 1 = 5 cuts.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = lessons
# lesson = 185-cuts-and-pieces.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
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	log	log	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	24	24	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	dm	dm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	cut	cut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	dm	dm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	24	24	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	÷	÷	SYM	SYM	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
16	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	17	case	_	_
17	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:nmod
18	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
21	takes	take	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
22	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
23	-	-	SYM	SYM	ExtPos=ADP	24	case	_	_
24	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	nmod	_	_
25	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	26	case	_	_
26	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	nmod	_	_
27	cuts	cut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	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 | **cut** | participle |  | 24 dm *not said here* |  |  |  | into pieces of 4 dm | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent into piece=Patient |
| 2 | **give** | present | a log of 24 dm | 4 6 pieces |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent ÷=Recipient piece=Theme |
| 3 | **take** | present | 4 6 pieces | 6 cuts |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cut=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:185-cuts-and-pieces.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): R5-strong ×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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