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title: Long ago people measured with hands, feet and steps, but everyone's… — Measuring the world — length, mass, time and tem… · tree and pragmatics
description: Long ago people measured with hands, feet and steps, but everyone's feet are different, so the same room could be "ten feet" for one person and "twelve" for another. Who acts: people, feet, same room. A sentence of the lesson «Measuring the world — length, mass, time and temperature» of the world co
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# Measuring the world — length, mass, time and temperature, sentence 0

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Long ago people measured with hands, feet and steps, but everyone's feet are different, so the same room could be "ten feet" for one person and "twelve" for another.

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**Who acts:** people, feet, same room · **What happens:** measure, be · **To what, where:** ten feet

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Measuring the world — length, mass, time and temperature» 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 (people, feet, same room), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:090-measuring-the-world.lesson:0
# text = Long ago people measured with hands, feet and steps, but everyone's feet are different, so the same room could be "ten feet" for one person and "twelve" for another.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 090-measuring-the-world.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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	_
2	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	measured	measure	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	steps	step	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
13	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	's	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
16	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
19	so	so	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
23	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
24	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	cop	_	_
25	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	_
26	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
27	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
28	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	_
29	for	for	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	nummod	_	_
31	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:obl
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	34	punct	_	_
34	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	conj	_	_
35	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	34	punct	_	_
36	for	for	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	34	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **measure** | past | people |  |  |  |  | with hands and feet and steps; ago *property* | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | everyone's feet |  |  |  |  | different *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | could | the same room | ten feet |  |  |  | for one person | tree rules |

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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:090-measuring-the-world.lesson:0`.

**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, R8-pos-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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