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title: A ribbon 3 metres long is 300 centimetres; cutting off 45 centimetre… — Metres and centimetres · tree and pragmatics
description: A ribbon 3 metres long is 300 centimetres; cutting off 45 centimetres leaves 300 − 45 = 255 centimetres. Who acts: ribbon, cutting. A sentence of the lesson «Metres and centimetres» of the lessons course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Metres and centimetres, sentence 2

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A ribbon 3 metres long is 300 centimetres; cutting off 45 centimetres leaves 300 − 45 = 255 centimetres.

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**Who acts:** ribbon, cutting · **What happens:** be, cut off, leave · **To what, where:** 300 centimetres, 45 centimetres, 300 255 centimetres

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Metres and centimetres» 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 (ribbon, cutting), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:lessons:098-metres-centimetres.lesson:2
# text = A ribbon 3 metres long is 300 centimetres; cutting off 45 centimetres leaves 300 − 45 = 255 centimetres.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = lessons
# lesson = 098-metres-centimetres.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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	ribbon	ribbon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	metres	metre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod:unmarked	_	_
5	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	300	300	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	centimetres	centimetre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	parataxis	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
10	cutting	cut	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	csubj	_	_
11	off	off	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:compound:prt|HaikuPos=PART:RP:_
12	45	45	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	centimetres	centimetre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
14	leaves	leave	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	300	300	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:obj
16	−	−	SYM	SYM	_	15	dep	_	_
17	45	45	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:dep
18	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	15	dep	_	_
19	255	255	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:dep
20	centimetres	centimetre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14: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 | **is a** | present | a ribbon  3 metres | 300 centimetres |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **cut off** | gerund |  | 45 centimetres |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector centimetre=Eventuality |
| 3 | **leave** | present | cutting | 300 255 centimetres |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent centimetre=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:098-metres-centimetres.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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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