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title: We choose a tool that fits the job: a ruler or tape measure for leng… — Measuring the world — length, mass, time and tem… · tree and pragmatics
description: We choose a tool that fits the job: a ruler or tape measure for length, scales for mass, a clock or stopwatch for time and a thermometer for temperature. Who acts: We, tool. A sentence of the lesson «Measuring the world — length, mass, time and temperature» of the world course of Mova's primary scho
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# Measuring the world — length, mass, time and temperature, sentence 2

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We choose a tool that fits the job: a ruler or tape measure for length, scales for mass, a clock or stopwatch for time and a thermometer for temperature.

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**Who acts:** We, tool · **What happens:** choose, fit · **To what, where:** tool, job

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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 (We, tool), 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:2
# text = We choose a tool that fits the job: a ruler or tape measure for length, scales for mass, a clock or stopwatch for time and a thermometer 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	choose	choose	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	tool	tool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	fits	fit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	job	job	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	ruler	ruler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	tape	tape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	measure	measure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	scales	scale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:nmod
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	mass	mass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	clock	clock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
24	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	stopwatch	stopwatch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	thermometer	thermometer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
31	for	for	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	temperature	temperature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **choose** | present | We | a tool |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tool=Theme |
| 2 | **fit** | present | a tool | the job |  |  |  |  | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Patient |

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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:2`.

**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): 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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