--- title: To cut a length in metres into pieces measured in centimetres, first… — Metres, centimetres and millimetres · tree and pragmatics description: To cut a length in metres into pieces measured in centimetres, first turn the metres into centimetres, then divide by the length of one piece. Who acts: you. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:lessons:247-metres-centimetres-and-millimetres.lesson:1 # text = To cut a length in metres into pieces measured in centimetres, first turn the metres into centimetres, then divide by the length of one piece. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = lessons # lesson = 247-metres-centimetres-and-millimetres.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 ×2 1 To to PART TO _ 2 mark _ _ 2 cut cut VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 14 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 length length NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nmod _ _ 7 into into ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 pieces piece NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 9 measured measure VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 acl _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 centimetres centimetre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 14 advmod _ _ 14 turn turn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:advcl 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 17 into into ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 centimetres centimetre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 21 advmod _ _ 21 divide divide VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 22 by by ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 length length NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 27 nummod _ _ 27 piece piece NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cut** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | a length | | metres | | into pieces | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent length=Material into piece=Product | | 2 | **measure** | participle | | pieces *not said here* | | centimetres | | | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **turn** | imperative | you *not said here* | the metres | | centimetres | | first *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent metre=Theme into centimetre=Trajectory | | 4 | **divide** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | then | by the length of one piece | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent by length=Co-Theme | 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:247-metres-centimetres-and-millimetres.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 ×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/). - ← previous: [Metres, centimetres and millimetres, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/247-metres-centimetres-and-millimetres/0/) - next →: [Metres, centimetres and millimetres, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/247-metres-centimetres-and-millimetres/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/247-metres-centimetres-and-millimetres/)