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title: To turn a height into inches only, multiply the feet by 12 and add t… — Feet, inches, yards, pounds and stone · tree and pragmatics
description: To turn a height into inches only, multiply the feet by 12 and add the extra inches. Who acts: you. 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 2

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To turn a height into inches only, multiply the feet by 12 and add the extra inches.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** turn, multiply, add · **To what, where:** height, feet, extra inches

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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: 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:248-feet-inches-yards-pounds-and-stone.lesson:2
# text = To turn a height into inches only, multiply the feet by 12 and add the extra 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): no change
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	height	height	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	inches	inch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
7	only	only	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	multiply	multiply	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	add	add	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	extra	extra	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	inches	inch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=imp

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | a height |  |  |  | into inches | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent height=Theme into inch=Trajectory |
| 2 | **multiply** | imperative | you *not said here* | the feet |  |  |  | by 12 | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent foot=Theme by 12=Co-Theme |
| 3 | **add** *speech: assert* | infinitive | you *not said here* | the extra inches |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent inch=Patient |

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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: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): 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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