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title: Others hide a fence-post (6 strikes of a clock have only 5 gaps betw… — Sounds right, but is wrong · tree and pragmatics
description: Others hide a fence-post (6 strikes of a clock have only 5 gaps between them) or a whole hiding inside a part (a brick that weighs 1 kg and half a brick weighs 2 kg, not 1 and a half). Who acts: Others, 6 strikes, brick, clock. A sentence of the lesson «Sounds right, but is wrong» of the world cours
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# Sounds right, but is wrong, sentence 6

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Others hide a fence-post (6 strikes of a clock have only 5 gaps between them) or a whole hiding inside a part (a brick that weighs 1 kg and half a brick weighs 2 kg, not 1 and a half).

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**Who acts:** Others, 6 strikes, brick, clock · **What happens:** hide, have, weigh, strike · **To what, where:** fence post, 5 gaps, 1 kg, 2 kg

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Sounds right, but is wrong» 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 (Others, 6 strikes, brick, clock), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:183-sounds-right-but-is-wrong.lesson:6
# text = Others hide a fence-post (6 strikes of a clock have only 5 gaps between them) or a whole hiding inside a part (a brick that weighs 1 kg and half a brick weighs 2 kg, not 1 and a half).
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 183-sounds-right-but-is-wrong.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	hide	hide	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	fence	fence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	_
6	post	post	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
7	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	13	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct
8	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	strikes	strike	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	clock	clock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl	_	_
14	only	only	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	gaps	gap	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
17	between	between	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nmod	_	_
19	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	13	punct	_	_
20	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:det
22	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	hiding	hiding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
24	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	29	punct	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	brick	brick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	parataxis	_	_
30	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	nsubj	_	_
31	weighs	weigh	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	acl:relcl	_	_
32	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	33	nummod	_	_
33	kg	kg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obj	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
35	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	37	det:predet	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	brick	brick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
38	weighs	weigh	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	conj	_	_
39	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	40	nummod	_	_
40	kg	kg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	obj	_	_
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
42	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	43	advmod	_	_
43	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	31	appos	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
45	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	43	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=43:appos
47	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	29	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=46:punct
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hide** | present | Others | a fence post or whole hiding inside a part |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent post=Patient |
| 2 | **have** | present | 6 strikes of a clock | 5 gaps |  |  |  | between Others *= other* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gap=Patient |
| 3 | **weigh** | present | a brick | 1 kg |  |  |  |  | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme kg=Value |
| 4 | **weigh** | present | half brick | 2 kg |  |  |  |  | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme kg=Value |
| 5 | **strike** |  | a clock |  |  |  |  |  | nom strike «act intransitive»: of=agent |

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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.

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**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:183-sounds-right-but-is-wrong.lesson:6`.

**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 ×2, 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/).

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