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title: To find how many cups a bottle fills, turn the litres into millilitr… — Party costs, drinks and time · tree and pragmatics
description: To find how many cups a bottle fills, turn the litres into millilitres, then see how many cups fit in them. Who acts: you, bottle, many cups. A sentence of the lesson «Party costs, drinks and time» of the lessons course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# Party costs, drinks and time, sentence 2

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To find how many cups a bottle fills, turn the litres into millilitres, then see how many cups fit in them.

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**Who acts:** you, bottle, many cups · **What happens:** find, fill, turn, see, fit · **To what, where:** many cups, litres, millilitres · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Party costs, drinks and time» 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, bottle, many cups), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:lessons:257-cups-of-juice.lesson:2
# text = To find how many cups a bottle fills, turn the litres into millilitres, then see how many cups fit in them.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = lessons
# lesson = 257-cups-of-juice.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 ×5
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
4	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	cups	cup	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:obj
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:det
7	bottle	bottle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	fills	fill	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:acl:relcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	turn	turn	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	litres	litre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	into	into	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	millilitres	millilitre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	_
17	see	see	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
18	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	19	advmod	_	_
19	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	cups	cup	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
21	fit	fit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	ccomp	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **fill** | present | a bottle | many cups |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent cup=Patient |
| 3 | **turn** | imperative | you *not said here* | the litres |  | millilitres |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent litre=Theme into millilitre=Trajectory |
| 4 | **see** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  | then |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 5 | **fit** | present | many cups |  |  |  |  | in millilitres *= millilitre* | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent in they=Trajectory |

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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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**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 ×5. **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.

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