--- title: Measuring the same thing several times and taking the average (add t… — Measuring the world — length, mass, time and tem… · tree and pragmatics description: Measuring the same thing several times and taking the average (add the results up and divide by how many there are) gives a more reliable result. Who acts: average, many, Measuring. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (average, many, Measuring), 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:16 # text = Measuring the same thing several times and taking the average (add the results up and divide by how many there are) gives a more reliable result. # 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 ×2 1 Measuring measure VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 24 csubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 5 several several ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obl:unmarked _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 taking take VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 1 conj _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 average average NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 12 punct _ _ 12 add add VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 acl _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 results result NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 15 up up ADP RP _ 12 compound:prt _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 divide divide VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 conj _ _ 18 by by SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 19 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 20 advmod _ _ 20 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 nsubj _ _ 21 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 22 expl _ _ 22 are be VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 advcl _ _ 23 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 12 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22:punct 24 gives give VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:parataxis 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 26 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 27 advmod _ _ 27 reliable reliable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 result result NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 24 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **measure** | gerund | | the same thing | | | time | | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme thing=Value | | 2 | **take** | gerund | | the average | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent average=Theme | | 3 | **add up** *speech: assert* | infinitive | the average *not said here* | the results | | | | | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent result=Patient | | 4 | **divide** | infinitive | the average *not said here* | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **be** | present | many | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **give** | present | Measuring | a reliable result | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent result=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:090-measuring-the-world.lesson:16`. **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 ×2. **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: [Measuring the world — length, mass, ti…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/90-measuring-the-world/15/) - next →: [Being a scientist — fair tests, guesse…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/91-being-a-scientist/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/90-measuring-the-world/)