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title: A 10-metre fence with a post every 2 metres, counting both ends, nee… — Olympiad: everyday reasoning ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: A 10-metre fence with a post every 2 metres, counting both ends, needs 6 posts. Who acts: 2 metres, metre fence. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: everyday reasoning ★★★» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Olympiad: everyday reasoning ★★★, sentence 9

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A 10-metre fence with a post every 2 metres, counting both ends, needs 6 posts.

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**Who acts:** 2 metres, metre fence · **What happens:** count, need · **To what, where:** ends, 6 posts

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: everyday reasoning ★★★» 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 (2 metres, metre fence), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:194-olympiad-everyday-reasoning.lesson:9
# text = A 10-metre fence with a post every 2 metres, counting both ends, needs 6 posts.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 194-olympiad-everyday-reasoning.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): no change
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	_	4	punct	_	_
4	metre	metre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	fence	fence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	post	post	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	det	_	_
10	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	metres	metre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod:unmarked	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	counting	count	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	acl	_	_
14	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	det	_	_
15	ends	end	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
17	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	posts	post	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	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 | **count** | gerund | every 2 metres *not said here* | both ends |  |  |  |  | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent end=Theme |
| 2 | **need** | present | a metre fence with a post  every 2 metres | 6 posts |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot post=Theme |

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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:194-olympiad-everyday-reasoning.lesson:9`.

**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): no change. **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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