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title: To share a weight or an amount of liquid into equal parts, first tur… — Kilograms and grams, litres and millilitres · tree and pragmatics
description: To share a weight or an amount of liquid into equal parts, first turn it into the small unit, then divide. Who acts: you. A sentence of the lesson «Kilograms and grams, litres and millilitres» of the lessons course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kilograms and grams, litres and millilitres, sentence 1

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To share a weight or an amount of liquid into equal parts, first turn it into the small unit, then divide.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** share, turn, divide, amount · **To what, where:** weight, equal parts, liquid, small unit

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Kilograms and grams, litres and millilitres» 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:099-weight-capacity.lesson:1
# text = To share a weight or an amount of liquid into equal parts, first turn it into the small unit, then divide.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = lessons
# lesson = 099-weight-capacity.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
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	share	share	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	weight	weight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	amount	amount	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	liquid	liquid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	into	into	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	equal	equal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	15	advmod	_	_
15	turn	turn	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	into	into	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	unit	unit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	23	advmod	_	_
23	divide	divide	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	15	parataxis	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **share** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | a weight or a amount of liquid |  | equal parts |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **turn** | imperative | you *not said here* | liquid |  | the small unit |  | first *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme into unit=Trajectory |
| 3 | **divide** | infinitive |  |  |  |  | then |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **amount** |  |  | liquid |  |  |  |  | nom amount «possession transitive»: of=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:099-weight-capacity.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): R5-strong ×2, 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/).

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