--- title: Ordinary paper is very hard to fold in half more than about seven ti… — Let's test it! Experiments and fair tests · tree and pragmatics description: Ordinary paper is very hard to fold in half more than about seven times, but in 2002 a student, Britney Gallivan, folded a very long thin strip 12 times. Who acts: Ordinary paper, student. A sentence of the lesson «Let's test it! Experiments and fair tests» of the myths course of Mova's primary scho --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/29-let-s-test-it-experiments-and-fair-tests/13/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Myths](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/) / [Let's test it! Experiments and fair te…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/29-let-s-test-it-experiments-and-fair-tests/) / 13 # Let's test it! Experiments and fair tests, sentence 13 Ordinary paper is very hard to fold in half more than about seven times, but in 2002 a student, Britney Gallivan, folded a very long thin strip 12 times. **Who acts:** Ordinary paper, student · **What happens:** be, fold · **To what, where:** long thin strip, 2002 This is a sentence of the lesson «Let's test it! Experiments and fair tests» of the myths 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 (Ordinary paper, student), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:myths:029-let-s-test-it-experiments-and-fair-tests.lesson:13 # text = Ordinary paper is very hard to fold in half more than about seven times, but in 2002 a student, Britney Gallivan, folded a very long thin strip 12 times. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = myths # lesson = 029-let-s-test-it-experiments-and-fair-tests.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Ordinary ordinary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 paper paper NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 very very ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 fold fold VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:csubj 8 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 9 half half ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 10 advmod _ _ 10 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 14 amod _ _ 11 than than ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 about about ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 seven seven NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 14 nummod _ _ 14 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 16 but but CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 2002 2002 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 25 obl _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 student student NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:appos 21 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 22 Britney Britney PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 23 Gallivan Gallivan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 flat _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 25 folded fold VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 27 very very ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 29 thin thin ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 strip strip NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 31 12 12 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 32 nummod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=32:compound 32 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl:unmarked _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Ordinary paper | | | | | hard *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **fold** | to-infinitive | Ordinary paper *not said here* | | | | time | | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **fold** | past | a student | a long thin strip | | 2002 | time | | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent strip=Patient | 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. **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:myths:029-let-s-test-it-experiments-and-fair-tests.lesson:13`. **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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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/). - ← previous: [Let's test it! Experiments and fair te…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/29-let-s-test-it-experiments-and-fair-tests/12/) - next →: [Let's test it! 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