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title: Heights are often given in feet and inches, like 4 feet 6 inches. — Feet, inches, yards, pounds and stone · tree and pragmatics
description: Heights are often given in feet and inches, like 4 feet 6 inches. A sentence of the lesson «Feet, inches, yards, pounds and stone» of the lessons course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Feet, inches, yards, pounds and stone, sentence 1

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Heights are often given in feet and inches, like 4 feet 6 inches.

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**What happens:** give · **To what, where:** Heights, feet

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Feet, inches, yards, pounds and stone» 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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:lessons:248-feet-inches-yards-pounds-and-stone.lesson:1
# text = Heights are often given in feet and inches, like 4 feet 6 inches.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = lessons
# lesson = 248-feet-inches-yards-pounds-and-stone.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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Heights	height	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
3	often	often	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	inches	inch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	like	like	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
13	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	inches	inch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:nmod:unmarked
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **give** | present · passive |  | Heights |  | feet and inches |  | like 4 feet and 6 inches; often *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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:248-feet-inches-yards-pounds-and-stone.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): R7-rel-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/).

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