--- title: Each fold doubles the layers of paper: 7 folds make 128 layers and 1… — Sounds wrong, but is right · tree and pragmatics description: Each fold doubles the layers of paper: 7 folds make 128 layers and 10 folds would make 1,024, which is why ordinary paper is very hard to fold more than about 7 times. Who acts: fold, 7 folds. A sentence of the lesson «Sounds wrong, but is right» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its --- [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/17/) [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/) / 17 # Sounds wrong, but is right, sentence 17 Each fold doubles the layers of paper: 7 folds make 128 layers and 10 folds would make 1,024, which is why ordinary paper is very hard to fold more than about 7 times. **Who acts:** fold, 7 folds · **What happens:** double, make, be, fold · **To what, where:** layers, 128 layers, 1,024, more 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 (fold, 7 folds), 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:17 # text = Each fold doubles the layers of paper: 7 folds make 128 layers and 10 folds would make 1,024, which is why ordinary paper is very hard to fold more than about 7 times. # 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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Each each DET DT PronType=Tot 2 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:det 2 fold fold NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:compound 3 doubles double VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 layers layer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 paper paper NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 9 7 7 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 10 nummod _ _ 10 folds fold NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 11 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 12 128 128 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 13 nummod _ _ 13 layers layer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 10 10 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 16 nummod _ _ 16 folds fold NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 conj _ _ 17 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:parataxis 19 1,024 1,024 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 18 obj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 21 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 28 nsubj _ _ 22 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 23 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 28 advmod _ _ 24 ordinary ordinary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 paper paper NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 27 very very ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 conj _ _ 29 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 30 fold fold VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 xcomp _ _ 31 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 30 obj _ _ 32 than than ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 33 about about ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 34 7 7 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 35 nummod _ _ 35 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:obl 36 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **double** | present | each fold | the layers of paper | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent layer=Patient | | 2 | **make** | present | 7 folds | 128 layers and 10 folds | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset layer=Product | | 3 | **make** | would | 7 folds *not said here* | 1,024 | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset 1,024=Product | | 4 | **is** | present | | | | | | hard *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **fold** | to-infinitive | | more | | | time | | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent more=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:world:182-sounds-wrong-but-is-right.lesson:17`. **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 ×3, 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, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/182-sounds-wrong-but-is-right/16/) - next →: [Sounds wrong, but is right, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/182-sounds-wrong-but-is-right/18/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/182-sounds-wrong-but-is-right/)