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title: So people agreed on standard units that are the same for everyone: t… — Measuring the world — length, mass, time and tem… · tree and pragmatics
description: So people agreed on standard units that are the same for everyone: the metre for length, the kilogram for mass, the second for time and the degree Celsius for temperature. Who acts: people, standard units. A sentence of the lesson «Measuring the world — length, mass, time and temperature» of the wor
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# Measuring the world — length, mass, time and temperature, sentence 1

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So people agreed on standard units that are the same for everyone: the metre for length, the kilogram for mass, the second for time and the degree Celsius for temperature.

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**Who acts:** people, standard units · **What happens:** agree, be

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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, standard units), 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:1
# text = So people agreed on standard units that are the same for everyone: the metre for length, the kilogram for mass, the second for time and the degree Celsius for temperature.
# 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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	agreed	agree	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	standard	standard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	units	unit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	acl:relcl	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	10	obl	_	_
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	metre	metre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	kilogram	kilogram	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:conj
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	mass	mass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	10	advcl	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:det
30	degree	Degree	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	Celsius	Celsius	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
32	for	for	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	temperature	temperature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **agree** *speech: agree* | past | people |  |  |  |  | on standard units | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent on unit=Topic |
| 2 | **is** | present | standard units |  |  |  |  | for everyone; same *property* | 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:1`.

**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 ×2, 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/).

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