--- title: Cutting a log into 4 pieces takes 3 cuts; at 2 minutes a cut, that i… — Sounds wrong, but is right · tree and pragmatics description: Cutting a log into 4 pieces takes 3 cuts; at 2 minutes a cut, that is 6 minutes. Who acts: Cutting, that. 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/14/) [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/) / 14 # Sounds wrong, but is right, sentence 14 Cutting a log into 4 pieces takes 3 cuts; at 2 minutes a cut, that is 6 minutes. **Who acts:** Cutting, that · **What happens:** cut, take, be · **To what, where:** log, 4 pieces, 3 cuts, 6 minutes 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 (Cutting, that), 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:14 # text = Cutting a log into 4 pieces takes 3 cuts; at 2 minutes a cut, that is 6 minutes. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Cutting cut VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:nsubj 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 log log NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 into into ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 4 4 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ _ 6 pieces piece NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obl _ _ 7 takes take VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 3 3 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 9 nummod _ _ 9 cuts cut NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 11 at at ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 2 2 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 13 nummod _ _ 13 minutes minute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 cut cut NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 20 nsubj _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 19 6 6 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 20 nummod _ _ 20 minutes minute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 parataxis _ _ 21 . . PUNCT . _ 7 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 | **cut** | gerund | | a log | | 4 pieces | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent log=Material into piece=Product | | 2 | **take** | present | Cutting | 3 cuts | | | minute | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cut=Theme | | 3 | **is a** | present | that | 6 minutes | | | | | tree rules | 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:14`. **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): R7-rel-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/). - ← previous: [Sounds wrong, but is right, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/182-sounds-wrong-but-is-right/13/) - next →: [Sounds wrong, but is right, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/182-sounds-wrong-but-is-right/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/182-sounds-wrong-but-is-right/)