--- title: 3 metres of ribbon is 300 cm; pieces of 25 cm give 300 ÷ 25 = 12 pie… — Metres, centimetres and millimetres · tree and pragmatics description: 3 metres of ribbon is 300 cm; pieces of 25 cm give 300 ÷ 25 = 12 pieces. Who acts: 3 metres, pieces. A sentence of the lesson «Metres, centimetres and millimetres» of the lessons course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/247-metres-centimetres-and-millimetres/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/) / [Metres, centimetres and millimetres](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/247-metres-centimetres-and-millimetres/) / 2 # Metres, centimetres and millimetres, sentence 2 3 metres of ribbon is 300 cm; pieces of 25 cm give 300 ÷ 25 = 12 pieces. **Who acts:** 3 metres, pieces · **What happens:** be, give · **To what, where:** 300 cm, 300 ÷ This is a sentence of the lesson «Metres, centimetres and millimetres» 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 (3 metres, pieces), 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:2 # text = 3 metres of ribbon is 300 cm; pieces of 25 cm give 300 ÷ 25 = 12 pieces. # 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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 3 3 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 ribbon ribbon NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 6 300 300 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 7 cm cm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 parataxis _ _ 8 ; ; PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 9 pieces piece NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 25 25 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 12 nummod _ _ 12 cm cm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nmod _ _ 13 give give VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 300 300 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 15 nummod _ _ 15 ÷ ÷ NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 25 25 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 19 nummod _ _ 17 = = SYM SYM _ 18 case _ _ 18 12 12 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 19 nummod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:nmod 19 pieces piece NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 20 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13: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 | 3 metres of ribbon | 300 cm | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **give** | present | pieces of 25 cm | 300 ÷ | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent ÷=Recipient piece=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: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, R6-punct-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: [Metres, centimetres and millimetres, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/247-metres-centimetres-and-millimetres/1/) - next →: [Feet, inches, yards, pounds and stone, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/248-feet-inches-yards-pounds-and-stone/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/247-metres-centimetres-and-millimetres/)