--- title: Fence posts: a 10-metre fence with a post every metre needs 11 posts… — Sounds wrong, but is right · tree and pragmatics description: Fence posts: a 10-metre fence with a post every metre needs 11 posts, because there is one at 0 as well as one at 10. Who acts: metre fence, one. 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 cl --- [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/2/) [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/) / 2 # Sounds wrong, but is right, sentence 2 Fence posts: a 10-metre fence with a post every metre needs 11 posts, because there is one at 0 as well as one at 10. **Who acts:** metre fence, one · **What happens:** need, be · **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, one), 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:2 # text = Fence posts: a 10-metre fence with a post every metre needs 11 posts, because there is one at 0 as well as one at 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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Fence fence NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 posts post NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 dep _ _ 3 : : PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 5 10 10 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 6 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 5 punct _ _ 7 metre metre NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 fence fence NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 9 with with ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 post post NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 12 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 13 det _ _ 13 metre metre NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl:unmarked _ _ 14 needs need VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 15 11 11 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 16 nummod _ _ 16 posts post NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 because because SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 19 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 20 expl _ _ 20 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 advcl _ _ 21 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 20 nsubj _ _ 22 at at ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 0 0 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 21 nmod _ _ 24 as as ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 25 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 24 fixed _ _ 26 as as ADP IN _ 24 fixed _ _ 27 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 21 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:nsubj 28 at at ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 10 10 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 27 nmod _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **need** | present | a metre fence with a post | 11 posts | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot post=Theme | | 2 | **be** | present | one at 0 | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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:2`. **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, 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/). - ← previous: [Sounds wrong, but is right, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/182-sounds-wrong-but-is-right/1/) - next →: [Sounds wrong, but is right, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/182-sounds-wrong-but-is-right/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/182-sounds-wrong-but-is-right/)