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title: Example: a 1-litre bottle of water has a mass of about 1 kilogram, s… — Measuring the world — length, mass, time and tem… · tree and pragmatics
description: Example: a 1-litre bottle of water has a mass of about 1 kilogram, so you can feel what a kilogram is just by lifting it. Who acts: litre bottle, you, kilogram. A sentence of the lesson «Measuring the world — length, mass, time and temperature» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its d
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# Measuring the world — length, mass, time and temperature, sentence 5

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Example: a 1-litre bottle of water has a mass of about 1 kilogram, so you can feel what a kilogram is just by lifting it.

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**Who acts:** litre bottle, you, kilogram · **What happens:** have, feel, lift · **To what, where:** mass

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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 (litre bottle, you, kilogram), 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:5
# text = Example: a 1-litre bottle of water has a mass of about 1 kilogram, so you can feel what a kilogram is just by lifting it.
# 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	Example	example	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
4	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	_
6	litre	litre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	bottle	bottle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	appos	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	mass	mass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	about	about	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	kilogram	kilogram	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
22	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	24	det:predet	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	kilogram	kilogram	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
26	just	just	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
27	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
28	lifting	lift	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10: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 | **have** | present | a litre bottle of water | a mass of 1 kilogram |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mass=Patient |
| 2 | **feel** | can | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **lift** | present · progressive | what kilogram | mass |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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**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.

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