--- title: A 10-metre fence with a post every metre needs 11 posts: one at 0 me… — Sounds wrong, but is right · tree and pragmatics description: A 10-metre fence with a post every metre needs 11 posts: one at 0 metres and one at every metre up to 10. Who acts: metre fence. A sentence of the lesson «Sounds wrong, but is right» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/182-sounds-wrong-but-is-right/12/) [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/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/) / [Sounds wrong, but is right](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/182-sounds-wrong-but-is-right/) / 12 # Sounds wrong, but is right, sentence 12 A 10-metre fence with a post every metre needs 11 posts: one at 0 metres and one at every metre up to 10. **Who acts:** metre fence · **What happens:** need · **To what, where:** 11 posts This is a sentence of the lesson «Sounds wrong, but is right» of the world 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 (metre fence), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:182-sounds-wrong-but-is-right.lesson:12 # text = A 10-metre fence with a post every metre needs 11 posts: one at 0 metres and one at every metre up to 10. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 182-sounds-wrong-but-is-right.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 ×6 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 2 10 10 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 4 nummod _ _ 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 2 punct _ _ 4 metre metre NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 fence fence NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 6 with with ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:det 8 post post NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:compound 9 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 10 det _ _ 10 metre metre NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 11 needs need VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 11 11 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 13 nummod _ _ 13 posts post NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 14 : : PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 15 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 13 appos _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:nummod 16 at at ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 0 0 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 18 nummod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:nmod 18 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:obj 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 15 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:nmod 21 at at ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 23 det _ _ 23 metre metre NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 24 up up ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 25 to to ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 10 10 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 20 nmod _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 11 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 | **need** | present | a metre fence a post with every metre | 11 posts | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot post=Theme | 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:world:182-sounds-wrong-but-is-right.lesson:12`. **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 ×6. **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: [Sounds wrong, but is right, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/182-sounds-wrong-but-is-right/11/) - next →: [Sounds wrong, but is right, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/182-sounds-wrong-but-is-right/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/182-sounds-wrong-but-is-right/)