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title: Take 2 cubes and 20 g off each side: 3 cubes balance 90 g. — Balancing the scales · tree and pragmatics
description: Take 2 cubes and 20 g off each side: 3 cubes balance 90 g. Who acts: you, 3 cubes. A sentence of the lesson «Balancing the scales» of the lessons course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Balancing the scales, sentence 4

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Take 2 cubes and 20 g off each side: 3 cubes balance 90 g.

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**Who acts:** you, 3 cubes · **What happens:** take, balance · **To what, where:** 2 cubes, side, 90

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Balancing the scales» 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 (you, 3 cubes), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:lessons:186-balance-pans.lesson:4
# text = Take 2 cubes and 20 g off each side: 3 cubes balance 90 g.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = lessons
# lesson = 186-balance-pans.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	Take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	cubes	cube	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	g	g	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
7	off	off	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
9	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	1	punct	_	_
11	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	cubes	cube	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	balance	balance	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
14	90	90	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	obj	_	_
15	g.	g	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	flat	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | imperative | you *not said here* | 2 cubes and 20 g |  | each side |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent cube=Theme off side=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **balance** | present | 3 cubes | 90 |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location 90=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:186-balance-pans.lesson:4`.

**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/).

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